# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/max-levchin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:39:05.901Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/max-levchin"
name: "Max Levchin"
slug: "max-levchin"
description: "Maksymilian Rafailovych \"Max\" Levchin is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman. In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts and was the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA challenge response human test."
tagline: "American businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Max_Levchin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1975-07-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10.32422460585343
  historical:           14.78827733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 249
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mlevchin"
    handle:    "mlevchin"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/maxlevchin"
    handle:    "maxlevchin"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxlevchin/"
    handle:    "maxlevchin"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.levchin.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماكس ايفيشن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Max Levchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin"
    title: "Max Levchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin"
    title: "Max Levchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Max Levchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Max Levchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump