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	I, Cringely . NerdTV . Transcript \| PBS
		Max Levchin: Well, I think you get your energy and your feeling of fun from the thought that you're changing the world and you're making interesting things happen and you're developing something or you're building something really cool, and there may well be a financial gain in the end of it all for you.
		Max Levchin: I would certainly not claim any sort of a "me better than X because." I did have what I'd like to think was excellent schooling before I got here.
		Max Levchin: So one of the companies that I'm involved in right now in the context of this thing, this incubator-like thing, is called Slide, and I think it lives at the intersection of some of these things that are gonna be part of the future.
	www.pbs.org /cringely/nerdtv/transcripts/002.html (8195 words)

	Cringely on PBS: electronic money
		Levchin is a Ukrainian-born computer programmer, a Jew who immigrated to Chicago with his parents when he was 16 years old.
		Levchin's art collection, at the moment I am writing this, consists of a couple posters and an electric wall clock that has plastic sushi in place of numbers.
		Max Levchin, both guns blazing, was killing people left and right while Max Levchin's PR man rolled his eyes.
	www.mail-archive.com /cryptography@wasabisystems.com/msg00879.html (3103 words)

	I, Cringely . August 31, 2000 - I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Max Levchin, both guns blazing, was killing people left and right while his PR man rolled his eyes.
		Max lives in an apartment with no furniture, drives a $57,000 sports car, and has a mother back in Chicago who fears (she doesn't know for sure) that her son is a failure because he doesn't have a Ph.D. or even a masters degree.
		Max and Peter's original idea was that people ought to be able to beam money to each other using the infra-red networking capability in their Palm Pilots.
	www.pbs.org /cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000831.html (1336 words)

	InfoWorld profile of Max Levchin
		A programmer since he was 10 years old, Levchin and his family moved to=20= Chicago in 1991, and since then he has pursued security as if on a=20 mission.
		Levchin is a panelist at InfoWorld's=20 Next-Generation Web Services II conference Sept. 20 PayPal, as an online payment system, is a natural target for fraud.
		And=20= Levchin has almost singlehandedly saved the company from thieves bent on=20= exploiting the system, says Avivah Litan, a vice president and analyst=20= covering financial services at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner.
	www.xent.com /pipermail/fork/2002-September/014482.html (526 words)

	Max Levchin Distinguished Entrepreneur
		Levchin and came to the U of I and met Nosek in ACM, the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
		Levchin became chair of SigGraph, the special interest group devoted to graphics, and Nosek became chair of the Unix group, SigUnix, and vice chair of SigArch, the architecture group.
		Levchin is now chief technical officer and is in charge of all the R and D and strategic technological decisions.
	a.cs.uiuc.edu /news/archives/allev.html (796 words)

	Business Wire: Max Levchin, Chief Technology Officer of PayPal... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Levchin, 26, emigrated to the United States from Ukraine as a teenager and moved to Silicon Valley after graduation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to start a company based in part on his passion for cryptography.
		Levchin's work provides the peace-of-mind and confidence required by business owners and end users to make online commerce a reality and is being widely imitated by banks and credit card companies.
		Levchin was chosen among the 2002 TR100, a group selected as the World's Top 100 Young Innovators in technology and business.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:86240346&... (518 words)

	Saïd Business School : Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		At PayPal Max was a member of the board of directors and chief technology officer, responsible for the areas of technology development, network and information security, and the fight with transaction fraud and identity theft.
		Since leaving PayPal late last year on the fourth anniversary of its founding, Max has been contemplating his next startups and re-acquainting himself with the world he has ignored for the last four years.
		Max graduated from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1997 with a degree in Computer Science, specializing in computer security and music.
	www.sbs.ox.ac.uk /html/events_silicon_valley_biog_levchin.asp (169 words)

	Joi Ito's TypePad: Thanks Max and James! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Max was a co-founder of PayPal and the CTO.
		Max figured out how to switch the order of the two networks and get me on the right one...
		Max told me he thought I was involved in way too much stuff that was just a waste of time.
	joi.typepad.com /weblog/2003/05/thanks_max_and_.html (524 words)

	Levchin & Nosek are PayPals
		Levchin honed his programming skills in Kiev, Ukraine, where he grew up and attended a special school devoted to mathematics, physics, and computer science.
		Levchin’s family moved to Chicago in 1991, when he was 16, and spent what little money they had on a 20 MHz 386SX so he could continue his computer studies.
		Levchin is now chief technical officer of X.com and is in charge of all the R and D and strategic technological decisions.
	a.cs.uiuc.edu /news/alumni/jan01/lev.html (946 words)

	BW Online \| October 1, 2002 \| Max Levchin: Online Fraud-Buster
		Not to Max Levchin, who at the tender age of 27 has made his life's work thwarting online fraudsters before they take the cash and run.
		Levchin is the brain behind the PayPal software's ability to spot and stop illegal payments -- most often, those made with fake or stolen credit cards -- while at the same time letting honest shoppers proceed with their purchases.
		Born in Kiev, Russia, Levchin emigrated to Chicago with his family in 1991.
	www.businessweek.com /technology/content/oct2002/tc2002101_0628.htm (776 words)

	Encyclopedia: Max Levchin
		Max Levchin is not really a computer scientist but an entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former CTO 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.
		Peter Thiel is an American businessman and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Max Levchin) and former CEO of PayPal.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Max-Levchin (580 words)

	InfoWorld
		Levchin was CTO -- he announced his resignation shortly before this went to press -- and co-founder of Mountain View, Calif.-based online payment company PayPal, which was recently acquired by eBay.
		Levchin's obsession with finding a secure system helped push PayPal's fraud-loss rate below 0.5 percent, and that caught the attention of a lot of marketplace players.
		To develop "Igor," Levchin first had to let Internet fraudsters steal money so that he could observe them and develop a solution that worked.
	apps1.infoworld.com /awards/awd_mic_2002_17.html (229 words)

	Clearstone Venture Partners \| Venture Capital for California Innovators \| News - PayPal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Levchin was selected to receive the top prize from the finalist pool of the 2002 TR100, 100 individuals under age 35 whose work in business and technology has a profound impact on today's world.
		Levchin's work in developing PayPal's proprietary fraud detection and prevention software was key to his selection as Innovator of the Year.
		As CTO, Levchin is responsible for the company's software development, information management and security as well as its anti-fraud efforts.
	www.clearstonevp.com /news/news_PAY052802.html (526 words)

	Secure Content Management (SCM): Software Medium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Not only has Levchin's e-mail account accumulated more than 11,000 spam messages in a special queue, but now he's also begun to get unwanted advertising on his Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry pager pitching fad diets, home refinancing offers, pornography—you name it.
		This is certainly the case at PayPal, where Levchin has avoided deploying spam-filtering technologies because he considers mass blocking to be an expensive proposition.
		Levchin said he has written personal filters sophisticated enough that the amount of spam that does enter his in-box is manageable.
	www.softwaremedium.com /news_article.cfm?nid=12 (2218 words)

	Secure and at ease \| InfoWorld \| Strategies & Tactics \| 2002-08-30 \| By Jack McCarthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A programmer since he was 10 years old, Levchin and his family moved to Chicago in 1991, and since then he has pursued security as if on a mission.
		Levchin is a panelist at InfoWorld's Next-Generation Web Services II conference Sept. 20 (for more information about the conference, go to http://www.infoworld.com/nextgen).
		Levchin says building security and antifraud systems is a job he relishes.
	www.infoworld.com /infoworld/article/02/08/30/020902ctspotlight_1.html (1390 words)

	Silicon Valley Watcher--Former FT reporter Tom Foremski and team reporting on the business of Silicon Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Max Levchin, the co-founder of PayPal, the internet commerce giant, is coming out of stealth mode mid-October with his next big venture: Slide.com, an online photo sharing site.
		Mr Levchin is betting on Slide.com's simplicity of operation, and its combination of "social" network technologies, to attract large numbers of users.
		Max has built up large PayPal communities, [and these are essentially "social networks"] so he could do the same with Slide.com, and grow communities in a similar, viral way.
	www.siliconvalleywatcher.com /mt/archives/2005/10/news_paypal_cof.php (1641 words)

	Wired 9.09: The Money Shot
		It was at one such talk that Max Levchin, a young cryptographer who had recently alighted in the Valley, introduced himself.
		Levchin came from Chicago, where he and his family had settled in 1991 after emigrating from Kiev as refugees.
		Levchin knew that a more intrusive sign-up procedure could hobble online thieves, but he also realized it would discourage potential customers.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/9.09/paypal_pr.html (4759 words)

	PBS \| I, Cringely . September 15, 2005 - It's Only $2.6 Billion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It was just a lucky break that this week's NerdTV subject was Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal and later helped sell it to eBay for $1.5 billion.
		Max -- quite without knowing it, given the interview was shot June 30 -- offers us some clues why eBay would pay at least $2.6 billion and perhaps as much as $4.1 billion this week for Skype, the Internet phone service.
		Only eBay knows its plans for Skype, but Max tells us what ultimately made the PayPal acquisition a success was the advanced level of integration achieved between the two companies.
	www.pbs.org /cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050915.html (1479 words)

	Distinguished Lecture: Ten Traps to Avoid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		PayPal founder Max Levchin explores the reasons for many tech company failures, identifies traps to avoid when growing a tech company, and explains how PayPal learned from early mistakes, overcame missteps and avoided big pitfalls to become one of the few successful IPOs of 2002.
		Max Levchin (BS'97) co-founded PayPal and has been its Chief Technology Officer ever since.
		At work, Max oversees all technology efforts at PayPal, from system architecture and network security, to the development of secret technology PayPal uses to combat online fraud.
	ftp.cs.uiuc.edu /news/abstracts/abs2001/levchin.html (246 words)

	Sounds & Visions: A Multimedia Experience for '95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Graphical interpretations of the music varied from fractals, to a 3-D equalizer, to a colossal spinning and contorting representation of Max Levchin's head.
		Levchin, chair of SIG Graph, created the highly detailed object by means of a 3-D scanner, allowing him to inflate his head on the huge projection screen, much to the amazement of the audience.
		Any interest in composing music or graphics for the next concert should be directed to Dan Wellman (wellman@uiuc.edu), and Max Levchin (m-levchin@uiuc.edu) respectively.
	www.acm.uiuc.edu /banks/feb96/sounds.html (259 words)

	Business Wire : Max Levchin, Chief Technology Officer of PayPal, Named `Innovator of the Year' by Technology Review. @ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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	static.highbeam.com /b/businesswire/may242002/maxlevchinchieftechnologyofficerofpaypalnamedinnov (236 words)

	PayPal co-founder readies photo-sharing service \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The San Francisco company, which he started last year, is Levchin's first big plunge into an Internet start-up since cashing in on eBay's $1.5 billion purchase of PayPal in 2002.
		Yet Levchin, who just turned 30 and has invested $1 million of his personal funds in the company, may have hit on the right way to make Slide stand out.
		Levchin came up with the idea for Slide while watching his girlfriend browse for shoes online.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9588_22-5843575.html (922 words)

	PayPal Founder Launches New Venture
		Downloads Available to the Public Today After More Than a Year in Development SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Max Levchin, co-founder and former CTO of PayPal, announced today the public beta launch of his new venture, Slide.
		Slide is a free downloadable desktop program that indexes photos on the user's hard drive, automatically groups them into intuitive channels, and plays them back via a unique always-on ticker interface.
		Levchin left the company in late 2002 to explore other projects and in 2004 founded Slide, Inc. He has since focused on developing the desktop application and back-end services for the new firm.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-30-2005/0004096647&EDATE= (331 words)

	Yelp! A viral recommendation system you can't resist? \| The Register
		Max Levchin, who had been following the Friendster bubble for the last 18 months, is acutely aware of this, although when we caught up with him last week he was trying very hard not to look like the cat that had eaten the cream.
		It's not emergent!" says, Levchin, with a wicked grin, although he's at pains to point out he's not picking a fight with the junk science techno-utopians.
		Usually, the spiders at the center of a social network need to lay claim to some Druid or Priest status before pulling that kind of stunt: they hold some special ingredient secret, or they're uniquely able to offer some quite new and utterly convincing belief system to persuade everyone to "keep connected".
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/10/13/viral_yelp (1484 words)

	buygoogle.com - google investment news, valuation, business prospects
		Levchin's take on what separates the winners from the losers is:
		This seems to be Google's approach -- deliver new functionality as a blistering pace and run rings around your bureaucratic and slothful competition.
		Levchin says there's no substitute for putting in frequent all-nighters for a cause you believe in (and that will make you millions).
	www.buygoogle.com /2005/09/max-levchin-on-all-nighters.html (244 words)

	Slide - Press Release
		San Francisco, CA, August 30, 2005 -- Max Levchin, co-founder and former CTO of PayPal, announced today the public beta launch of his new venture, Slide.
		Best known for being the CTO and technology brains behind PayPal, which he co-founded in 1998, Max Levchin led PayPal and the high-tech industry in the development of network and information security technologies to fight transaction fraud and identity theft.
		Slide, Inc, was founded in 2004, is privately held, and is located in downtown San Francisco.
	www.slide.com /static/pressrelease1 (387 words)

	I, Cringely . September 27, 2001 - Electric Money \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This may be the first time in history that the names J.P. Morgan and Max Levchin have been used in the same sentence.
		On the surface, the two men don't seem to have much in common.
		Funny, I hadn't noticed the parachute pants, but it was a good detail.
	www.pbs.org /cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010927.html (3079 words)

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