Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... For the computer game previously called Entrepreneur, see The Corporate Machine. ... Peter Thiel Peter Thiel is an American financier, entrepreneur, and prominent donor to charities focusing on economic liberty and technology. ... Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focussed on technical issues in a company. ... eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. ...

Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, NetMeridian Software and SponsorNet New Media. In 1998, he founded Fieldlink with John Bernard Powers, which was later restructured to become Confinity and eventually PayPal. Location Map of Ukraine with Kiev highlighted. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A bachelors degree (Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A.) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is the largest campus in the University of Illinois system. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... SponsorNet New Media was billed as the webs first advertising network when it was created in the summer of 1995. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

PayPal went public in February 2002, and was subsequently acquired by eBay. His 2.3% stake in PayPal was worth approximately $34 million at the time of the acquisition.^[1] He is primarily known for his contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts [1] and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA. eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December February 27, 2002 Alicia Keys wins five Grammys. ... eBay headquarters in San Jose eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) eBay Inc. ... eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. ... A CAPTCHA (an initialism for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. ...

In 2004, Levchin founded Slide [2], a personal media-sharing service. Slide is a free service for groups to discover, share, and talk about photos together. ...

He also helped start Yelp, an online social networking and review service. For other uses, see Yelp (disambiguation). ... // An example of a social network diagram Social network analysis views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. ...

Levchin was an executive producer for the movie Thank You for Smoking. Thank You for Smoking is a 2006, Golden Globe nominated film satire directed by Jason Reitman and produced by David O. Sacks. ...

Notes and references

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External links

• http://www.levchin.com/ Personal website, includes photos from PayPal IPO.
• NerdTV Interview (video, audio, and transcript available) - 30 June 2005