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Max Levchin
Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchyn ((ウクライナ語:Максиміліан Рафаїлович Левчин); born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is the former chief technology officer of PayPal, which he co-founded in 1998. As CTO he is primarily known for his contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts〔 and is also the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA.
In 2002, he was named to the ''Technology Review'' TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, as well as Innovator of the Year.〔 Levchin founded Slide in 2004 and was involved until 2011. In 2004, he helped start Yelp, an online social networking and review service, and is their largest shareholder as of 2012.〔 He is involved with other companies as well, for example serving on the board of directors for Yahoo!.
==Early life and education==
Born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Levchin moved to the United States under political asylum,〔(BBC News Video Interview in Start-Up Stories )〕〔(Hareetz: "One day in Silicon Valley" by Guy Rolnick ) August 3, 2010 |''"Levchin, 32, Jewish of course and born in Kiev, refused to discuss money."''〕〔(New York Times: "After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again" By GARY RIVLIN ) October 28, 2007〕 and settled in Chicago in 1991.〔 In an interview with Emily Chang of ''Bloomberg'', Levchin discussed his overcoming adversity as a child. He had respiratory problems and doctors doubted his chance of living. Per his role "Role Model Grandma" and his parents he took up a woodwind instrument, the clarinet in this case, to expand his lung capacity. He attended Mather High School and earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1997.
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