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PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Introduction

The group of people who helped launch paypal back in the late 19 nineties would go on to either found or fund companies including youtube, tesla, facebook, yel, flicker linked in mosilla, palanteer and many more. Max levchin is a gifted computer scientist and coder who founded his first companies a student at the university of illinois. In this episode, part one, you'll hear about his early years, the launch and growth of pay pal and its eventual sale to eba. And next week, part two. You may have heard the phrase papel mafia, a term popularized by fortune magazine in an article that came out in two thousand

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