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3 unusual facts about Max Levchin


Max Levchin

Levchin is collaborating with Garry Kasparov and Peter Thiel on The Blueprint, a book calling for a revival of world innovation.

After changing the company name to Confinity, they developed a popular payment product known as PayPal.

TransferWise

TransferWise has received seed funding amounting to $1.3 million from a consortium including leading venture firms IA Ventures and Index Ventures, as well as individual investors such as PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, former Betfair CEO David Yu, and Wonga.com co-founder Errol Damelin.


Jessica Livingston

In early 2007, Livingston released Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (published by Apress), a collection of interviews with famous startup founders, including Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor, Ray Ozzie, and Max Levchin.

MemSQL

MemSQL has raised more than $5 million to date from a variety of investors including First Round Capital, IA Ventures, NEA, and several prominent angels including Paul Buchheit, Max Levchin, Aaron Levie, and Ashton Kutcher.

Wavii

Wavii had received funding from Mitch Kapor, Max Levchin, Dave Morin, Keith Rabois, Benjamin Ling, Joshua Schachter, Scott Banister, CrunchFund, Felicis Ventures, Gil Elbaz, Fritz Lanman, Matt Ocko, Rick Marini, Brandee Barker, Max Ventilla, MG Siegler, and SV Angel.


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