Consumer fintech buy-now-pay-later company founded by Max Levchin.
“Affirm's breakthrough was Casper. One mattress company became every mattress company.”
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“they rebuild the fundamental ledger technology every year”
“The shocking thing about payments is that it is the world's largest market by any stretch of imagination.”
Source→“Rob Pfeiffer — Early Affirm finance hire, noted for his sharp, cynical read of the initial pricing model.”
Source→“Nils — Founder of Beautylish, whose implementation of up-funnel financing messaging produced Affirm's key conversion breakthrough.”
Source→“Tracy — CEO of TradeZ.com, an early and vocal Affirm merchant advocate who coined 'the Affirm Effect.'”
Source→“He intuitively grok this idea that like you can absolutely post pay a thing if you have enough trust.”
Source→“I asked Max Levchin this question because he's a hands-on CTO, CEO type. He's super technical. I asked him, do you still think people need to learn how to code?”
Source→“Max Levchin — Contributed questions to the interview; named as part of the ecosystem of Founders Fund-affiliated figures”
“It's like Levchin kind of right in some ways. Because he could be a CTO and he is a great CEO... Max escaped communism as a kid. He's not interested in going back to this.”
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