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Max Levchin (Max Levchin) (1975) (Computer scientist and entrepreneur)
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, NetMeridian Software and SponsorNet New Media. PayPal was founded in 1998, and went public in February 2002.
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 2004, Levchin founded Slide, a personal media-sharing service.
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