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  "markdown": "Co-founder, PayPal.\n\nMax 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.\n\n## What Max builds\n\n- [PayPal MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paypal-mcp-server.md), graded C, 56.3/100, in Payment \u0026 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/mcp` or as a hosted server at mcp.paypal.com with a PayPal login. Co-founder, PayPal, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Christopher Payne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/christopher-payne/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Ed Ho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ed-ho/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Elon Musk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/elon-musk-2/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Harris Fricker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/harris-fricker/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)\n- [Ken Howery](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ken-howery/), Co-founder, PayPal\n- [Luke Nosek](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/luke-nosek/), Co-founder, PayPal\n- [Peter Thiel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/peter-thiel/), Co-founder, PayPal\n- [Yu Pan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yu-pan/), Co-founder, PayPal\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Max Levchin?\n\nMax 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.\n\n### What does PayPal make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### How are Max's tools graded?\n\nPayPal MCP server is graded C, 56.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://developer.paypal.com/ai-tools/mcp-server\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paypal/paypal-mcp-server/main/README.md\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Nosek\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Howery\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Pan\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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