In February 2013, Max Levchin launched Affirm — a point-of-sale (POS) lender that would provide creditworthy millennials, who lacked credit cards and credit scores, the ability to buy and finance items from online sellers at checkout. Today, Affirm is announcing its one millionth POS loan and...
July 21, 2017
“Finance is pretty broken.” So started Affirm’s Co-Founder and CEO Max Levchin’s remarks at his firm’s first-ever AFFIRMation conference for its retail partners in San Francisco yesterday. Levchin, by his own description, has spent his career in financial services and founding companies — “some of which succeeded, some didn’t.” His best-known effort — and a very clear entry into the “win” column — is, […]
April 12, 2017
In February 2013, Max Levchin launched Affirm — a point-of-sale (POS) lender that would provide creditworthy millennials, who lacked credit cards and credit scores, the ability to buy and finance items...
