Интервью с Максом Левчиным

Справка: Левчин - один из двух основателей ПейПала, родом из Киева. Можно сказать, везде свои люди. В Гугле - Брин, в ПейПале - Левчин. Скайп - так вообще наш эстонский.


PayPal was founded in December 1998 by recent
college grad Max Levchin and hedge fund manager
Peter Thiel. The company went through several
ideas, including cryptography software and a service
for transmitting money via PDAs, before finding its
niche as a web-based payment system. That service
became wildly popular for online vendors, especially
eBay sellers, who preferred it to traditional payment
methods. PayPal went public in early 2002 and was
acquired later that year by eBay for $1.5 billion.
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