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Levchin: Having children fundamentally shifts an entrepreneur's project selection and time horizon
“Having children fundamentally changes your perception of what you're working on and how far ahead you're looking.”
Affirm maintains a postmortem repository covering all incidents since founding
“We literally have a postmortem depot where people can go and review every major or minor Nothing we did going back to the beginning of a firm time and learn from it.”
Levchin: Affirm's 2023 layoff was company's lowest morale point
“We had to do a layoff in about two years ago and that was morale lowest point for me and I think everyone around me”
Levchin removed Affirm's stock ticker from his computer to maintain focus
“I've gone through some great lengths, by the way, to make sure I don't accidentally stumble on my ticker. So, you know, my Apple desktop, if I click in the top right corner and stocks drops down, I cannot see my stock ticker. So I don't accidentally discover t…”
Levchin: After two years reading AI papers, I'm nowhere near expert status
“I decided two years ago that I was just gonna read the attention paper and become an expert in LLMs, and, you know, just read all the papers after that, and I'm still in the process of getting anywhere near expertly status.”
Max Levchin includes a Big Lebowski quote in every Affirm shareholder letter
“If you are a careful student of my shareholder letters, of which I have now written on the order of, it cannot possibly be 16, but I think it's 16 or 15 you will see that every single one of them contains a reference to the movie Big Lebowski.”