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After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again

October 28, 2007/

Max Levchin is not easily distracted from his work.

A few years ago, Mr. Levchin, one of the young princes of Silicon Valley, bought his first home, a 12-room Edwardian high atop a hill here, for $3.4 million. But Mr. Levchin, who made a fortune at age 27 selling PayPal, the online payment service he helped start in 1998, never moved in. He sold it two years later without having slept there for even one night.

By GARY RIVLIN

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/business/28invent.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

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