Founder of a listed tool
Max Levchin
Co-founder, PayPal, named behind the PayPal MCP server listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Max builds
PayPal MCP server C · Payment & monetisation platforms
PayPal's official MCP server lets a merchant's AI client work with invoices, orders, refunds, disputes, subscriptions, catalogue products and transaction reports. It runs locally through
npx @paypal/mcpor as a hosted server at mcp.paypal.com with a PayPal login.Co-founder, PayPal, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Christopher Payne Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- Ed Ho Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- Elon Musk Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- Harris Fricker Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- Ken Howery Co-founder, PayPal
- Luke Nosek Co-founder, PayPal
- Peter Thiel Co-founder, PayPal
- Yu Pan Co-founder, PayPal
Questions
Who is Max Levchin?
Max Levchin co-founded PayPal as Confinity in 1998 and was its chief technology officer until eBay acquired it in 2002. He worked on PayPal's anti-fraud systems and co-created the Gausebeck-Levchin test, an early commercial CAPTCHA. He is co-founder and CEO of Affirm.
What does PayPal make?
Anchor Terminal lists PayPal MCP server from PayPal. PayPal's official MCP server lets a merchant's AI client work with invoices, orders, refunds, disputes, subscriptions, catalogue products and transaction reports. It runs locally through npx @paypal/mcp or as a hosted server at mcp.paypal.com with a PayPal login.
How are Max's tools graded?
PayPal MCP server is graded C, 56.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (9)
- https://developer.paypal.com/ai-tools/mcp-server
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paypal/paypal-mcp-server/main/README.md
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Nosek
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Howery
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Pan
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