The Coca-Cola Company announced that Max Levchin, a PayPal co-founder who went on to found and lead financial technology company Affirm, has been elected as a director, effective October 16, 2025. Levchin, 50, is a longtime technologist and entrepreneur. In 1998, he co-founded Confinity, which evolved into PayPal, where he served as chief technology officer.
He remained with PayPal until it was acquired by eBay in 2002. He went on to launch several ventures, including Slide, a personal media-sharing service that was acquired by Google in 2010. He launched the innovation lab HVF, which led to the creation of Affirm in 2012.
Affirm, which provides installment payment solutions, became a public company in 2021. Levchin has served on the boards of various technology companies, including Yelp Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. Levchin was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to the United States in 1991.
He earned a bachelor?s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The company also appointed Mr. Levchin to the Board?s Talent and Compensation Committee.
