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Max Levchin Affirm

CEO & Founder

CEO & Founder of Affirm

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Quick Facts

  • Role CEO & Founder
  • Company Affirm
  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Finance
  • Founded 2012
  • Known For Affirm makes an AI-driven credit decision at the exact moment a shopper checks out, at a…
  • Last Reviewed Jul 2026

Executive Summary

Max Levchin Affirm is listed in public materials as CEO & Founder of Affirm. This Brel Digital profile records the verified public leadership association using official company sources. Biographical details that are not evidenced on the cited official pages are omitted.

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  1. 2012 Company founded

    Affirm was founded in 2012 per the company profile source on file.

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  2. 2012 Development

    2012: Affirm is founded by Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, and Alex Rampell, spun out of Levchin's HVF innovation studio in San Francisco.

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  3. 2020 Development

    November 18, 2020: Affirm files with the SEC in preparation for an initial public offering.

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  4. 2021 Development

    January 13, 2021: Affirm lists on the Nasdaq under ticker AFRM, raising about $1.2 billion in its IPO.

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  5. 2021 Product

    September 22, 2021: Affirm launches Adaptive Checkout, presenting biweekly and monthly pay-over-time options side by side at checkout.

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  6. 2023 Development

    June 7, 2023: Affirm's Adaptive Checkout becomes available to merchants through Amazon Pay.

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  7. 2025 Development

    Fiscal 2025u20132026: Affirm rolls out Adapt AI, an AI-powered configuration layer for Adaptive Checkout that the company said lifted gross merchandise value by about 5% for participating merchants, per its fiscal fourth-quarter 2025 earnings call.

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Financial AI product

Adaptive Checkout

Adaptive Checkout, a pay-over-time product offering biweekly and monthly installment plans with a real-time underwriting decision;…

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Overview

Max Levchin Affirm is listed in public materials as CEO & Founder of Affirm. This Brel Digital profile records the verified public leadership association using official company sources. Biographical details that are not evidenced on the cited official pages are omitted.

Role

Max Levchin Affirm holds the publicly documented role of CEO & Founder at Affirm. Readers should confirm current titles on the company’s official leadership or about pages, as executive roles change over time.

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Last Reviewed

This profile was last reviewed on July 14, 2026.

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Max Levchin

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Affirm

  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Finance

Founder, chairman, and CEO of Affirm, the installment-payment network he built after co-founding and serving as chief technology…

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