in "Brilliant Issue" of Portfolio by Condé Nast Publications. In 2022 Levchin was interviewed in an NPR podcast called "How I Built This" where he spoke about his early life and business endeavors including his role in PayPal. Politics Levchin was listed as one of the contributors to FWD.us, a Silicon Valley-based lobbying group spearheaded by Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Green. The group is intended to concentrate on immigration liberalization for high-skilled immigrants to the United States, improvements to education, and facilitating technological breakthroughs with broad public benefits. Levchin also narrated his personal experience as an immigrant in a video released by the group. In 2013, amidst the controversy over mass surveillance and NSA espionage activities, Levchin defended the NSA. According to him, the agency was designed to protect the US from terrorism, so even if it oversteps its bounds, the public shouldn’t hate it. This opinion was opposed to that of many in the tech industry, including Michael Arrington who stated that NSA espionage does not stop terrorism - "it IS terrorism". Personal life In 2008, Levchin married his longtime girlfriend, Nellie Minkova. He has two children. References Further reading After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again — New York Times profile on Levchin External links Personal Website 1975 births Living people American computer businesspeople American computer scientists American investors American technology chief executives American technology company founders Businesspeople from Chicago Businesspeople in information technology Jewish American scientists PayPal people Engineers from Kyiv Ukrainian SSR emigrants to the United States Ukrainian Jews Grainger College of Engineering alumni Directors of Yahoo! American chief technology officers 21st-century American businesspeople 20th-century American businesspeople Mather High School alumni 21st-century Ukrainian engineers