Gen Z hates talking on the phone, so companies like the $9.7 billion buy-now, pay-later giant Affirm are betting big on AI-powered chatbots. The bots let voice-averse customers solve problems online, ...

The fintech founder says a "moral capitalist" culture will keep its buy-now-pay-later services in demand despite growing ...

Max Levchin, CEO of buy-now, pay-later platform Affirm, said it’s important to help your employees pack their boxes after you lay them off. Although he was “terrified of owning the responsibil ...

Affirm founder and CEO Max Levchin, who was previously a co-founder of PayPal, built his company with the promise of giving consumers lower-cost and easy-to-tap intstallment loans for purchases ...

Affirm CEO Max Levchin candidly shared his early struggles with layoffs, evolving to physically support affected employees. His approach includes maintaining a strong company culture to soften the ...

He is a member of the CNBC Global CFO Council, and a former Chairman of the London Chapter of the Young President's Organization Max Levchin is the founder and CEO of Affirm, and the co-founder and ...

The X1 Card, unveiled a year ago and backed by tech execs like PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, started with a 350,000-plus person waitlist but has now launched for all U.S. customers. While its 17 ...

Last September Affirm CEO and co-founder Max Levchin told PaymentsDive that he wanted to differentiate his company from competitors, including Klarna. One way that it is doing that, he told a ...

The Affirm CEO talks about new ways consumers are using its buy now, pay later services.

Max Levchin, and Peter Thiel, PayPal became the go-to brand name in online money management and was bought by eBay in 2002. As of 2025, PayPal accounts for 45% of the global payments market and ...

Founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek, the payment platform that would later become PayPal began as a Palm Pilot cryptography company called Confinity, which was ...