The New Republic -- This was how, in the summer of 1998, (Peter Thiel) met an important collaborator. Max Levchin—who had graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a computer science degree a few years after Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Netscape—was in the habit of finding random classrooms to spend days in. The rest would become Silicon Valley legend. Levchin would go on to develop the fraud detection software that was the core of PayPal.
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