# Max Levchin (slim)

> Max Levchin is co-founder of PayPal. PayPal MCP server on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, PayPal.

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.

## What Max builds

- [PayPal MCP server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paypal-mcp-server.md), graded C, 56.3/100, in 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/mcp` or as a hosted server at mcp.paypal.com with a PayPal login. Co-founder, PayPal, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Christopher Payne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/christopher-payne/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- [Ed Ho](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ed-ho/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- [Elon Musk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/elon-musk-2/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- [Harris Fricker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/harris-fricker/), Co-founder, PayPal (via X.com)
- [Ken Howery](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/ken-howery/), Co-founder, PayPal
- [Luke Nosek](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/luke-nosek/), Co-founder, PayPal
- [Peter Thiel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/peter-thiel/), Co-founder, PayPal
- [Yu Pan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/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.

### What does PayPal make?

Anchor Terminal lists PayPal MCP server from PayPal.

### 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

- 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

These 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.