Benjamin Wachenje
Title: Co-founder and CEO, Affirm; chairman, Yelp
Born: July 11, 1975, Kyiv, Ukraine (then USSR)
Education: BS in computer science, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Early Marker: Co-founded PayPal with Peter Thiel, who with others became a group of entrepreneurs known as the PayPal Mafia.
Big Idea: Reimagining financial services from credit cards to deposit banking.
Wave of the Future: Disrupting financial services
