Talk:Max Levchin/Archives/2012

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WikiProject class rating

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The picture

Are we really serious about the picture of Levchin? That's the best we can do? Really professional GFDL contribution there. - Havecloud 04:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Better? Gary King (talk) 14:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

I think the current one is fine and better than many that I've seen on Wikipedia.--Gloriamarie (talk) 00:25, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Details removed

I'm removing the following content due to lack of sourcing and relevance to Levchin's bio. Additionally there are problems with tone and content - we don't really deal in rumors, what an unspecified "many" believe, or online blog disputes. Per WP:PRESERVE I'm adding it here because I suspect there's some real substance behind it if we can only find reliable sources for it and perhaps put it in a more appropriate place, e.g. an article about the book or about the companies in question.

There is a lot of controversy around the merger of X.com and Confinity. Many believe that it was not a good deal for PayPal, and that it was forced upon them by their venture capitalists (VCs). Eric Jackson, an early employee of PayPal, offers a detailed account of the merger in his book PayPal Wars.

X.com CEO Elon Musk published an online rebuttal of these rumours at Valleywag.

Thanks, Wikidemon (talk) 20:10, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Computer scientist

Any references supporting his activity as 'computer scientist'? Otherwise I suggest to remove the term 'computer scientist' from the article. Yurivict (talk) 10:40, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Removed Yurivict (talk) 16:19, 2 September 2011 (UTC)