Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap

Max Levchin is one of the great founders and technologists of our time. As the Founder and CEO of Affirm, he has built am $18.7BN monster in the buy no pay later space. Prior to Affirm he was one of the original co-founders of PayPal. Max is also the co-founder and Chairman of Glow, a data-driven fertility company. Max is also an immensely successful angel investor with a portfolio including the likes of Yelp, Pinterest and Evernote.

In Today’s Episode We Discuss:

- How to Hire the Best People in the World

- How to Manage Extreme Personalities

- Biggest Lessons on Trust and What Happens When Lost

- Is Grading Talent A and B Players Total BS?

- How to Think About Calculated vs Uncalculated Risk

- How to Create a Culture of Post Mortems: Step by Step

- Why Every Person Must Write and How to Create a Writing Culture

- Leadership Lessons from Layoffs

- Is Affirm Losing or Beating Klarna in the US?

- Peter Thiel or Elon Musk: Who Would Max Rather Start a New Company With?

- Quick-fire Round