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Max Levchin’s epiphany: driving down I-57 towards Paypal

Nearly 20 years ago, Max was driving down I-57 to Champaign. He’d just failed to convince the world’s largest advertising agency that this Internet thing might be useful to them.

He decided then and there that he would never work for anyone.

And then he started PayPal.

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