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Jeremiah Robison and the problem with standing still
From handwriting recognition at Apple to the mobile web, social networks and CIONIC, Jeremiah Robison keeps moving software into unfamiliar territory. His career is a study in what happens when code has to get along with the physical world.
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.
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.