Max Levchin

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2,409 appearances 6 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 6d ago

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TBPN · Chip Bottleneck vs. Energy Bottleneck, Amazon’s $200B Capex, Big Tech Earnings | Doug O'Laughlin, Max Levchin, TJ Parker, Arsalan Tavakoli · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

Market's not

Human it

All sorts of things.

Short

term, it's a voting machine.

So I think the PayPal

thing is really not a commentary on software is cheap, software is free.

Like if you look at the strategy of the outgoing CEO who I know pretty well and respect greatly, he's he's a a real bona fide product guy and

I should know once it's

Myself one of those.

Uh his strategy was very much build more software, expand the footprint of PayPal into all kinds of really interesting directions.

And so

And obviously I was not even a little bit privy to any of the decisions taking place or why did they choose to change management, but if the company believed that software is better, cheaper, easier to build, they wouldn't have changed courses because the the previous guy was absolutely beating the drum of let's build software.

I don't know why and what they'll do next, but I do agree with you as you know, it is my first child.

Yeah.

Uh I do compete with it now with my second child.

So bad.

Yeah,

So I think I'm a fairly

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