All Max Levchin Quotes
- The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways. Awash
- The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile. Important
- Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company. 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… Aced
- 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… Anyone
- 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… All
- Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads. Ads
- Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself. Another Manifestation
- I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important. Anybody
- 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. Care
- If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook. Building
- Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector. Economic
- Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more. All
- Technology has come a long way since PayPal. Long
- You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal. Any
- 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… Challenges
- 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.… 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… Actually Take
- 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… Audience
- 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 -… Been
- We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty… Bad
- You're going to pull out your phone and try to use whatever is the most appropriate app on your iPhone or your Android device. Yelp… Android
- You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want… Design
- A classic engineering mistake and one I've made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable. Classic
- The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one,… Bang