Max Levchin

CEO and President
HVF

Computer scientist Max Levchin, who describes himself on his blog, “Too Long To Tweet,” as a “bilingual bicyclist and eternal entrepreneur,” co-founded PayPal and was its CTO from founding through its acquisition by eBay. As CEO and president of the HVF innovation lab, he is focused on solving big problems and improving lives by extracting insights from the vast quantities of recordable information around us. HVF launched its first project, Affirm, in early 2013, and is going live with Glow at the end of May. Levchin currently serves as chairman of the boards of directors of Yelp and Kaggle, and is also a director of Yahoo and Evernote.