Max Levchin
16 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 19, 2025 by Keith Rabois · said 30 times in 6 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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2026 23 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- Brian Singerman: "If SpaceX Didn't Work, Founders Fund Wouldn't Exist" · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Brian Armstrong: Rebuilding Coinbase Around Intelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- "Dig Through Your Couches. SpaceX Needs It." Cyan Banister on Luke Nosek's Pitch · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Mark Pincus: How to Spot a Fake CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine
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Sep 19, 2025 positive
Apr 13, 2026 bullish
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Socialism Is Fundamentally Corrupt While Competitive Capitalism Works Exceedingly Well
“Socialism sucks. It is terrible. The only people who Do well in redistribution of wealth are the ones doing redistribution. Like it's fundamentally corrupt and there's not enough bad things I can say about socialism. So I think capitalism works exceedingly wel…”
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Long-Term Tech Founders Should Not Fear Down-Round IPO Repricing
“If you're prepared for that journey, if you're ready to take it through the next 1015, 20 years, then it's time to go public. And it doesn't matter if on day one you're below your last private round, the question is where do you end up five years from now, 10 …”
Apr 13, 2026 bullish
AI Productivity Gains Will Amplify the US Competitive Advantage
“I tend to believe in the former just because I'm being an American by choice. You sort of better be a patriot. Otherwise, what exactly were you thinking? And I am. So I tend to think that we will probably end up with just a Amplification of our advantage.”
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Closed Virtual Economies Inevitably Evolve to Resemble the US Economy
“If you look at the success arcs of these systems, over time they resemble U S economy more and more sort of like they typically start out with a fixed money supply and like, we'll, we'll figure out how to inject more money later. And then suddenly more people …”
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Majority of Affirm Shareholder Letters Reference The Big Lebowski
“But it is true that majority of our shareholder letters contain subtle or not so subtle references to the Big Lebowski, and because it's been public for twenty-ish quarters, and At some point, all the stuff that I've memorized has been used. So now I need to c…”
Apr 13, 2026 bullish
AI Assistants Will Take Over Price Discovery and Deal Hunting
“There's things like price discovery. There's things like Deal hunting and all of that sort of fairly easy to imagine if you're, whenever you caught yourself thinking, I wish I had an assistant to do this for me. You will now like that. That's where it's all go…”
Apr 13, 2026
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Affirm Mobilized 1,200 Employees to Manually Review 800,000 Shopify Merchants
“They just signed his giant deal with us, like, all right, so we have 1200 employees, 800,000 merchants, I'm just going to give everyone 700 and something merchants to review manually. And so for like a week with no sleep, people are just like manually reviewin…”
Apr 13, 2026 negative
Apr 13, 2026 negative
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Apr 13, 2026 neutral
Apr 13, 2026
Levchin Sold Parts of His College Startup to LinkExchange
“When I was in college, one of my many failed startups didn't fail completely, and it ended up, parts of it ended up being sold to a link exchange, which Alfred and Tony and a bunch of other people I'm still good friends with were Founders slash very early empl…”
Apr 13, 2026 positive
Technical CEOs Are Writing Production Code at Night Again
“I really love learning from very technical CEOs these days, because all of us are trying to keep up and sort of do our day job and run a company and set strategy and sort of figure out what the future looks like. But also by night, we're suddenly all back to w…”