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Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 1:02 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Max Levchin regained his sense of purpose after losing himself in the long shadow of PayPal and eventually built Affirm, another multi-billion dollar fintech company that's changing how we buy things… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:51 Max Levchin So one of the key insights for our firm was Gen Z and millennial generations, which
- ▶ 32:57 Guy Raz And, and, and the company you launched, Affirm, is one of several companies in this space right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:21 Guy Raz I want to, I want to dig into this from the merchant's perspective, because from what I understand, when a consumer makes a transaction with a firm, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 Guy Raz So it's 2012, 2013, and Max has launched this new company, Affirm, a buy now, pay later service that simplifies the experience of buying on credit. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:06 Guy Raz Uh, did you have to have a lot of cash on hand or, or was all, were all of these sort of the interest payments essentially paid by the, the retailers and, you know, and then in some cases the actual consumer, you guys never, a firm never… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Guy Raz One of the things that's been, um, really interesting about Affirm is, um, and I, it sounds like you very sort of intentionally thought of Gen Z millennials as your consumer base, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:36 Guy Raz Um, I mean, a firm is, it's, uh, it's a math problem, right, that you're solving here, because I'm assuming that you're looking at the math, and a firm is a public company, and 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:47 Guy Raz Max, you've been working on a firm now for 10 years. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:32 Guy Raz That's Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Affirm and co-founder of PayPal.