Max Levchin

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed.…

— Max Levchin

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

— Max Levchin

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members)…

— Max Levchin

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

— Max Levchin

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on…

— Max Levchin

You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your…

— Max Levchin

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

— Max Levchin

Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

— Max Levchin

Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.

— Max Levchin

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

— Max Levchin

I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.

— Max Levchin

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

— Max Levchin

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work…

— Max Levchin

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you…

— Max Levchin

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

— Max Levchin

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good…

— Max Levchin

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided…

— Max Levchin

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used…

— Max Levchin

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

— Max Levchin

Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way…

— Max Levchin

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

— Max Levchin

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

— Max Levchin

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests,…

— Max Levchin

I never wear suits.

— Max Levchin

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

— Max Levchin