Co-Inventor of the "Captcha" technology, pictures that appear as ransom notes with letters to type in, which require a human response to verify that the entity on the other end of the line is not a robot.
[1] San Francisco Chronicle, 26 February 2006.
Mother: Elvina Levchin
Wife: Nellie Minkova (m. 2008, two children)
High School: Mather High School, Chicago, IL
University: BS Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997)
Affirm Co-Founder and CEO (2012-)
Slide, Inc. Founder and CEO (2005-10)
PayPal Co-Founder, CTO (1999-2002)
Member of the Board of Evernote (2006-16)
Member of the Board of Yahoo! (2012-15)
Member of the Board of Yelp (2004-15)
FWD.us
Official Website:
http://www.levchin.com/
