Millennials were shunning plastic and supposedly wary of consumer debt. Affirm's Max Levchin saw a way to repackage the model for younger folks—and it's made him a billionaire
Levchin says he taught himself to program computers at age 10 to help his mom, a physicist, who had been instructed by her Soviet state employer to learn the new skill
Image: Reuters
(This story appears in the 09 April, 2021 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)