Recode Decode: Max Levchin, Affirm CEO

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Affirm CEO and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin talks with Kara Swisher about being a serial entrepreneur and discovering more about himself in the process. He also discusses why startup founders and investors are increasingly flocking to finance, the problems with banking that tech can solve and what Marissa Mayer is doing right at Yahoo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.1	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:34.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, executive editor of Recode.
0:37.6	You may know me as the consigliere for the PayPal Mafia, but in my spare time I talk tech and
0:42.3	you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about Silicon Valley's key players, big ideas
0:47.5	and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:49.6	Today in the red chair we have Max Levson, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and
0:54.8	is an investor in companies like Yelp and Evernote.
0:58.0	He recently founded HVF, which stands for hard, valuable, fun, and one of these companies
1:03.3	he's now running, a firm which is trying to build the modern day bank.
1:07.7	He's also recently been a board member at Yahoo, so you know I'll ask him a few things about
1:11.2	this and he'll say nothing.
1:12.5	Welcome, Max.
1:13.5	Thank you.
1:14.5	You can say no comment right now to start with.
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