How I Built This with Guy Raz

PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)

Jun 13, 2022

01:28:10

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Credit Card Fraud

02:11

Palm to Web, Palm to Palm - Simplest Easier

02:04

What Are You Doing to Diversify Your Revenues?

02:04

Introduction

4min

What I Learned About Max Lechin

2min

Did You Identify as Jewish or Did You Stay Away From It?

2min

The Long Tale of Your Parents Emigrating to the United States

3min

Did Your Parents Speak English?

2min

I Want to Go to M T

2min

The Future's Being Made Right Here

2min

What Happens to Ad Webb?

2min

The End of the Road

2min

10.

Whoop - The World's Most Powerful Wearable Health and Fitness Coach

3min

11.

Sora Development - I'm Guy Ros

2min

12.

The Hedge Funding Lecture at Stanford

2min

13.

Did You Have the Courage to Talk to a Professor?

2min

14.

What's Your Other Idea?

3min

15.

I'll Take Your Money, Ike.

4min

16.

How to Fund Rake a Venture Capital Fundraiser

2min

17.

Pri Venture Capitalists - What Are They Investing In?

2min

18.

'Confidence and Infinity'

2min

19.

Is It a Good Idea to Just Write Code All the Time?

3min

20.

Is It a Year Before You Youd Make That Pivotal?

3min

21.

Do You Want to Transact With Cryptocurrency?

2min

22.

Palm to Web, Palm to Palm - Simplest Easier

2min

23.

The One Major Factor That Can Make or Break Your Business

4min

24.

Eba Payments - How Did It Grow So Fast?

3min

25.

Credit Card Fraud

2min

26.

Pay Pal, You Guys Were Like the Enemy

2min

27.

X Dot Cm and Papall Are the Same Company?

2min

28.

How Did You Find Working With Elon?

2min

29.

Papal X Dot Com - What Do You Remember About That?

3min

30.

What Was Your Life Style Like at Paypal?

3min

31.

How Did Papel Survive the Com Crash?

3min

32.

Paypal - A Brief History

1min

33.

Ebe Was Trying to Shut You Down

2min

34.

What Are You Doing to Diversify Your Revenues?

2min

35.

How to Survive in a World of Uncertainty

2min

36.

The Worst Year of Your Life

2min

37.

Why Didn't You Go to Sequi Capital?

2min

38.

How I Built This - Part One

2min

39.

How to Listen to Blood Tie Season 3 Strange Days

2min

During its formative years in the late 1990's, Paypal attracted an extraordinary group of young entrepreneurs, who then went on to build some of the best known companies in tech. They became known as The PayPal Mafia—and Max Levchin was one of the leaders. A computer genius from Soviet Ukraine, Max joined Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and others as they grew PayPal into a massively successful online payment service. Along the way, they encountered almost every start-up challenge imaginable, including the emotional ouster of Elon Musk as CEO. After PayPal was acquired by eBay in 2002, Max couldn't sit still, so he launched a startup lab that eventually led to another successful fintech company: Affirm. Guy will talk to Max about Affirm next week, in the second episode of this two-part series.

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