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My resolution: think big, take risks

By Max Levchin Jan. 7, 2012, 3:00am PT No Comments

The emergence of inexpensive sensors is the singularly most exciting thing about the world in many ways. A big part of our life is to make sense of it all before it’s too late. Read More »

Meet The New New Facebook

By Om Malik Nov. 15, 2010, 4:12pm PT 27 Comments

When it comes to Facebook, you can count on one thing –- CEO/Founder Mark Zuckerberg is not afraid to move hundreds of millions of people in a new direction. That’s one reason why the Palo Alto-based social web company has been able to constantly reinvent itself. Read More »

Slide CEO: Risks of OPP & Why Ad Models Don’t Work

By Om Malik Nov. 9, 2010, 11:10am PT 2 Comments

In Part II of his video interview, Slide Founder Max Levchin talks about PayPal’s turbulent early years, the delicate balance between platform owners and developers and his not-so-fond-memories of the advertising based business models. He talks about the lack of desire for big breakthroughs in society.… Read More »

In His Own Words: Max Levchin (Video)

By Om Malik Nov. 8, 2010, 4:00pm PT 17 Comments

In the Part 1 of the two part interview, Max Levchin, the Ukrainian-born co-creator of PayPal and founder of Slide, talks about his entrepreneurial journey. It is a story of immigrant work ethic, relentless desire to live his version of the American dream. Read More »

Max Levchin Says Embracing Failure Is Dumb

By Janko Roettgers Aug. 6, 2010, 2:45pm PT 11 Comments

Slide CEO Max Levchin is joining Google with the acquisition of his company, but some of his thinking could collide with the way Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been approaching social products like Google Wave. One of the biggest issues: Levchin really doesn’t like failure. Read More »

How Slide Pushes Google's Open Social Strategy

By Liz Gannes Aug. 6, 2010, 11:35am PT 14 Comments

Google this morning confirmed what had already been widely reported — that it has bought Slide, the social application maker. Google’s blog post on the matter is incredibly vague as to what Slide will actually be doing for Google, but let’s read the tea leaves. Read More »

PayPal Startup Lessons: Smart Management Is Good, But Money Is Even Better

By Mathew Ingram Jun. 29, 2010, 2:30pm PT 2 Comments

Did PayPal discover some sort of magic recipe that allowed so many of its former executives and other staff to create startups like YouTube, Slide, Yelp and the newly public Tesla Motors? PayPal staffers say it was smart management, but some PayPal cash probably helped, too. Read More »

Frothy Times for Web Angel Investing

By Liz Gannes Apr. 27, 2010, 3:43pm PT 39 Comments

A long list of investors putting money in a jumbo-seed round earlier than ever is not uncommon these days. It’s not that there’s too few investments driving up demand; to the contrary, there are many young companies taking lots of money from lots of investors. Read More »

Slide Cuts Ad Staff, Shifts Focus

By Om Malik Jul. 6, 2009, 7:43pm PT 36 Comments

Max Levchin’s Slide, a San Francisco-based startup that caught the Facebook application wave early, is making a strategic shift, refocusing its revenue efforts on higher-margin premium advertising that include brand sponsorships for many of its well-known applications such as Super Poke. As part of… Read More »

What Do Slide, 23andMe & Chemdex Share?

By Om Malik May. 23, 2008, 1:26pm PT 7 Comments

Max Levchin, well known for being a co-founder of both Paypal and Slide, as well as for imitating Tom Cruise on “The GigaOM Show,” has just become the first person to get on the cover of magazine Portfolio. The magazine’s editors recently threw a little… Read More »