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Austin McChord and the trouble with a finished project

He built Datto, gave $50 million to his university, and put robot fights on the calendar. Now Austin McChord is back in data backup, while helping turn an abandoned power plant into a public park.

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Legend

Founder · Engineer · Investor

Max Levchin

Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American tech entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal, where he served as CTO and helped build one of the world's first large-scale digital payment systems. He later founded Slide (acquired by Google for $182M), Glow (women's health app, 25M users), and most prominently Affirm - the publicly traded buy-now-pay-later leader with $3.22B in FY2025 revenue. Levchin is also a cryptography advocate (creator of the Levchin Prize), early Yelp investor and chairman, and co-founder of SciFi VC with his wife Nellie.

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