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I Gave Up Coding in the Short Term to Become a Better Leader Long Term by Max Levchin

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Max Levchin is the co-founder of Affirm and PayPal.

Max Levchin is the co-founder of Affirm and PayPal. This essay first appeared as a LinkedIn article in 2015. Leadership, for me, came as an unavoidable necessity. In the early days of creating PayPal, I avoided managing a team for as long as possible. All I wanted to do was code with my hacker friends – you could call it a CTO-among-equals sort of deal. As the team became too large to manage without leaders, I hired and fired directors of engineering and VPEs, only to have to let them go or watch them leave on their own. I eventually figured out that the managers I was hiring were good but…

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