Who Founded Affirm?

Max Levchin (born 1975) is a highly influential Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. After helping build the foundational infrastructure of the modern digital payments industry at PayPal, he founded Affirm to challenge traditional credit card networks. As CEO, he has guided Affirm through a massive IPO and secured exclusive partnerships with retail giants like Amazon and Walmart. Max Levchin was born in 1975.

Nathan Gettings co-founded Affirm, bringing immense expertise in massive-scale data analytics and risk modeling from his time building Palantir's core anti-fraud systems. He helped architect Affirm's initial proprietary underwriting algorithms before departing the company.

Nathan Dale Gettings was co-founder and chief technology officer of Palantir Technologies and co-founder and chief executive of RoboteX. At Affirm he served as chief risk officer. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Jeffrey Kaditz co-founded Affirm and served as its first Chief Technology Officer. He led the initial engineering team that built the original BNPL infrastructure and API integrations for early merchant partners before leaving to found the health-tech startup Q Bio. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Alex Rampell co-founded Affirm based on his deep understanding of point-of-sale financing and merchant networks. He helped shape the company's early go-to-market strategy before transitioning his focus to venture capital as a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).