Max Levchin is a fintech founder who leads Affirm as its Founder and CEO, having previously co-founded PayPal as its Chief Technology Officer. Max Levchin's Twitter Score is 274 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,326 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Max Levchin founded Affirm and co-founded Glow as co-founder and Chairman, both companies having emerged from his innovation lab HVF, short for Hard, Valuable, Fun. He also founded Slide as its CEO and co-founded SciFi VC as general partner. Affirm has reported approximately 27 million active consumers and more than $46 billion gross merchandise volume on a last-twelve-months basis as of the quarter ended March 31, 2026. Previously, Max Levchin served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yelp Inc. and was formerly affiliated with Yahoo! Inc.
Max Levchin established the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography in 2016 through a personal donation; the prize honors major innovations in cryptography with real-world impact and awards two recipients $10,000 each year. Max Levchin has 255,903 followers as of July 2026 and has published 4,510 posts. He has been mentioned by 458 accounts a total of 1,059 times.
Max Levchin's fund portfolio includes Blockstream, Anchorage Digital, Xapo Bank, Gumroad and Neo.
Who follows Max Levchin on X?
The accounts that follow Max Levchin include 1,513 founders, 371 angel investors, 223 influencers and 140 VCs. Among them are Balaji, Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman and Toly.