Max Levchin Quotes

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• The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.
• The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.
• Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.
• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single…
• I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least…
• As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the…
• Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.
• Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.
• I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.
• If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.
• If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.
• Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.
• Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
• Technology has come a long way since PayPal.
• You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
• If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more…
• If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent.…
• If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and…
• Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the…
• Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users -…

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