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Jul 2025
17m 34s

Business Daily meets: Max Levchin

Bbc World Service
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The fintech entrepreneur tells us about co-founding PayPal, and how an embarrassing personal moment when trying to buy a car, led him to start the buy now, pay later company Affirm.

Produced and presented by Leanna Byrne

(Image: PayPal Co-Founder & Affirm CEO Max Levchin in 2019. Credit: Getty Images)

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