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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★MIT Technology Review TR100 as top 100 innovators under 35 (2002)
★Innovator of the Year award
★Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People consideration
★Chicago Innovation Hall of Fame inductee (2017)
★Carnegie Corporation recognition
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and CEO of Affirm with $18.7B market cap
→Co-founder of PayPal, one of the original 'PayPal Mafia' members
→Net worth estimated at $2.5-3 billion
→Recently elected director of The Coca-Cola Company (October 2025)
→Served on U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau advisory board
→Co-creator of CAPTCHA technology (Gausebeck-Levchin test)
→Early investor and largest shareholder in Yelp
→Founded multiple companies: Slide (sold to Google), HVF, Glow
→Ukrainian immigrant who moved to US in 1991
→Regular keynote speaker at tech conferences
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