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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...