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Max Levchin

 Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-born American software engineer, and CEO and co-founder of Affirm. In 1998, after graduating from college, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. 

35 Recommended books from Max Levchin

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  • Artemis

    by Andy Weir November 14, 2017 Humor & Entertainment

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    4.2 stars

    8,232 ratings

    The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set on the moon.
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  • Black Edge

    by Sheelah Kolhatkar February 7, 2017 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.5 stars

    1,066 ratings

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An essential exposé of our times—a work that reveals the deep rot in our financial system . . . ...

  • Consider Phlebas (Culture)

    by Iain M. Banks March 26, 2008 Science Fiction & Fantasy

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    4.0 stars

    2,218 ratings

    The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the uto...

  • Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition

    by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan andAl Switzler September 9, 2011 Self-Help

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    4.7 stars

    7,875 ratings

    The New York Times and Washington Post bestseller that changed the way millions communicate

    “[Crucial Conversations] d...

  • Dear Leader

    by Jang Jin-sung January 27, 2015 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.6 stars

    846 ratings

    THE STORY THEY COULDN'T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as ...

  • Endurance

    by Alfred Lansing April 28, 2015 Engineering & Transportation

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    4.8 stars

    6,646 ratings

    Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age: The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's ...

  • Fast-Track Triathlete

    by Matt Dixon MSc October 18, 2017 Sports & Outdoors

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    4.8 stars

    186 ratings

    "Lays out all the elements needed to succeed and excel at triathlon without compromising the other important things in your li...

  • Good to Great

    by Jim Collins October 16, 2001 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.5 stars

    4,701 ratings

    The Challenge:
    Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and ...

  • High Growth Handbook

    by Elad Gil July 17, 2018 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    262 ratings

    High Growth Handbook is the playbook for growing your startup into a global brand.

    _"If you want the chance to turn your...

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    by J.D. Vance May 1, 2018 History

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    4.5 stars

    25,964 ratings

    THE Number 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLO...

  • House of Morgan

    by Ron Chernow September 20, 2001 Biographies & Memoirs

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    4.5 stars

    810 ratings

    The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever wr...

  • Influence

    by Robert Cialdini July 21, 2021 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    8,506 ratings

    **The widely adopted, now classic book on influence and persuasion—a major national and international bestseller with more than...

  • Lake Success

    by Gary Shteyngart September 4, 2018 Humor & Entertainment

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    3.9 stars

    619 ratings

    “Spectacular.”—NPR
    • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe
    • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle
    • “A nove...

  • Predictably Irrational

    by Dr. Dan Ariely April 27, 2010 Business & Money

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    4.6 stars

    4,312 ratings

    Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurg...

  • Slow Horses

    by Mick Herron March 11, 2014 Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

    The first book in CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage series starring a team of MI5 agents united by one common bon...

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    by Gerald Jay Sussman and Harold Abelson September 1, 1996 Computers & Technology

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    4.7 stars

    458 ratings

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decad...

  • THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

    by Mikhail Bulgakov June 21, 2016 Literature & Fiction

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    4.6 stars

    1,711 ratings

    A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised versio...

  • The Art of Computer Programming

    by Donald Knuth July 7, 1997 Computers & Technology

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    4.4 stars

    122 ratings

    _The bible of all fundamental algorithms and the work that taught many of today's software developers most of what they know ab...

  • The Ascent of Money

    by Niall Ferguson October 27, 2009 Business & Money

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    4.5 stars

    1,298 ratings

    The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency

    "[An] excellent, just in time g...

  • The Coddling of the American Mind

    by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff August 20, 2019 Politics & Social Sciences

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    4.7 stars

    5,075 ratings

    New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction • A New York Times Notab...

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