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22 December 2008
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...had this thought -- what if the world comes to a screeching halt?" Now, equipped with a substantial war chest, Levchin says Slide is ready to go on an acquisition tear. "It's actually the best time to expand when it's a downturn, because literally ever
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21 December 2008
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...executives failed to take heed this year and are suffering the consequences now that the spigot of easy money has dried up. Levchin, founder of Slide, a 3-year-old company that creates online slide shows and greetings called "pokes" that are popular o
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12 December 2008
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...MTV Networks Lynda Clarizio, President, AOL's Platform-A Matt Palmer, EVP & GM, Stardoll Max Levchin, Founder & CEO, Slide, and Co-Founder, Paypal Min Kim, VP of Marketing, Nexon America Owen Van Natta, CEO, Playlist Steve Jang, CMO & Head of Business
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Slide posted to their blog:Get your "I Heart SuperPoke!" Tees for the Holidays! |
12 November 2008
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New online media startup headed up by the founder of PayPal, Max Levchin. Backed by Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures and the Founders Fund.
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07 November 2008
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...on the winners." Advice from one of those winners was provided by Max Levchin a former co-founder of PayPal and founder of Slide, a publisher of social entertainment applications. In contrast to the caution Mr Levchin advocated shooting for the moon. "
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05 November 2008
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...makes a fetish of finding the best talent wherever he can, has benefitted from immigration personally; his tech fortunes are due in large part to the genius of Ukrainian-born programmer Max Levchin, his cofounder at PayPal who is now CEO of Slide. ...
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04 November 2008
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...investor Ram Shriram and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The second panel had such serial entrepreneurs as Slide's Max Levchin and Mahalo's Jason Calacanis. "This is no ordinary business cycle. This is a crisis," Calacanis said. Later,
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04 November 2008
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...as they can even when their investors panic, said Max Levchin, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and is now the CEO of Slide, a startup in San Francisco that writes software applications for social networks. "Never tell people how many month
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31 October 2008
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...on the winners." Advice from one of those winners was provided by Max Levchin a former co-founder of PayPal and founder of Slide, a publisher of social entertainment applications. In contrast to the caution Mr Levchin advocated shooting for the moon. "
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30 October 2008
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...as they can even when their investors panic, said Max Levchin, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and is now the CEO of Slide, a startup in San Francisco that writes software applications for social networks. "Never tell people how many month
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30 October 2008
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...of making cuts and then falling back into the same costly habits, only to have to downsize again in the future. Slide CEO Max Levchin said that he has never been forced to lay off his workers, but emphasized the importance of being stingy. He attribute
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30 October 2008
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...Ram Shiram and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The second panel had such serial entrepreneurs as Slide's Max Levchin and Mahalo's Jason Calacanis. The layoff body count grows by the day. As fallout from the financial crisis rains down o
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29 October 2008
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...as they can even when their investors panic, said Max Levchin, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and is now the CEO of Slide, a startup in San Francisco that writes software applications for social networks. "Never tell people how many month
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27 October 2008
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...advanced math techniques is creating a tremendous opportunity for performance marketing leaders like Adchemy. Slide CEO Max Levchin: An obvious challenge--the economic downturn--is really a big opportunity for companies like Slide that can grow smart
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25 October 2008
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...will pay for the privilege of getting advice from the likes of venture capital don John Doerr, angel investor Ron Conway and Slide founder Max Levchin. The following evening, valley business maven Dave McClure's Startup2Startup dinner at the Sheraton P
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18 October 2008
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14 October 2008
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...Those who have raised war chests remain upbeat. "Not to sound obnoxious, but this downturn could be good for us," says Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Slide, in San Francisco. "Some of our competitors are going to go out of business." To get an idea ho
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11 October 2008
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...Those who have raised war chests remain upbeat. "Not to sound obnoxious, but this downturn could be good for us," says Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Slide, in San Francisco. "Some of our competitors are going to go out of business." To get an idea ho
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10 October 2008
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...delays Eric finally got his papers through and leaves very soon. I'll see you in London Eric! . . . Max Levchin, ex-PayPal, now Slide and Yelp, is no longer one of Silicon Valley's most eligible bachelors. He recently got married to Nellie Minkova at t
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09 October 2008
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...in one fell swoop. If you need to raise money, raise it immediately. Of course, ex-PayPalers Max Levchin and Keith Rabois of Slide figured that out back in January. They turned to Allen & Co., the uber-connected investment bank, to help raise $50 mill
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Slide posted to their blog:Go pink with SuperPoke! |
09 October 2008
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Slide posted to their blog:Seeking Desperate Measures with Underoath- Xbox contest! |
08 October 2008
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03 October 2008
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...apps, have long had a serious rivalry over the most frivolous Web software. But the two may be pulling apart. Slide, Max Levchin's SuperPoke machine, signaled yesterday that it's betting on online entertainment, partnering with Hollywood to bring mains
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02 October 2008
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02 October 2008
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01 October 2008
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01 October 2008
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01 October 2008
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01 October 2008
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01 October 2008
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...included characters such as Reid Hoffman, who started Linkedin; Peter Thiel, who funded Facebook; and Max Levchin, who started Slide. Then there were the Google IPO millionaires of 2004, who not only drove up housing prices in Silicon Valley but also t
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01 October 2008
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29 September 2008
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29 September 2008
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...considering Levchin's Slide promotes the practice of sharing every precious, and not-so-precious moment with the world at large, and that his company has massive amounts of Facebook user data at its disposal thanks to the popularity of the company's Fa
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29 September 2008
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Slide posted to their blog:“Never Get Old” with Red Car Wire’s artist SuperPoke! |
23 September 2008
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04 September 2008
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03 September 2008
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...Francisco hosted Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club for an evening with award-winning journalist Sarah Lacy and Max Levchin, CEO of Slide and co-founder of PayPal. Lacy released her book Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley
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30 August 2008
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...to win no matter which network comes out on top. (Slide's chief widget-making rival, RockYou, is also well in the mix.) Slide's success is only pegged to the social networking trend, which shows no signs of flagging in 2008. Founder: Max Levchin Fundin
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Slide posted to their blog:Blaze the campaign trail with SuperPoke! |
30 August 2008
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21 August 2008
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...winter" before his social-network startup, Ning, raised $60 million; similar fears, if less bluntly voiced, drove Slide CEO Max Levchin to add $50 million to his startup's stash earlier this year. The risk of all these companies adding to their stock o
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08 August 2008
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07 August 2008
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...think that the tool does a pretty good job of evaluating founding teams for comparison purposes — it thinks that Slide has a better founding team than RockYou, for example, even though the valuations were way off. That’s something that post-money valua
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27 July 2008
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...For Lacy’s other subjects, repeated success has yet to be determined. For example, it is unclear whether Levchin’s new company, Slide, which makes “widgets” — small, single-purpose applications for Web sites like Facebook and MySpace — will end up maki
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25 July 2008
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...For Lacy’s other subjects, repeated success has yet to be determined. For example, it is unclear whether Levchin’s new company, Slide, which makes “widgets” small, single-purpose applications for Web sites like Facebook and MySpace will end up making h
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24 July 2008
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...respectively, were temporarily suspended in the last month because of security holes that allowed privacy violations. Slide CEO Max Levchin told the blog TechCrunch Wednesday that he wanted to see clearer rules from Facebook on what is and what's not
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23 July 2008
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23 July 2008
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22 July 2008
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...all here, from industry heavyweights Bill Gates and Barry Diller to "it" entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Max Levchin of Slide, and naturally venture capitalists are on the prowl for startup ideas. That night and for the rest of the confer
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22 July 2008
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...all here, from industry heavyweights Bill Gates and Barry Diller to "it" entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Max Levchin of Slide, and naturally venture capitalists are on the prowl for startup ideas. That night and for the rest of the confer
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18 July 2008
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16 July 2008
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14 July 2008
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...Thiel, Musk and a few of the other original employees have moved on to create such Internet enterprises as LinkedIn, YouTube, Slide, Yelp and SpaceX, and even an electric-car startup by Musk called Tesla Motors. "It's in the DNA of PayPal," said Thomps
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09 July 2008
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...world. No real big surprises. Some names include: Digg CEO Jay Adelson (they’re perpetually close to a sale), Max Levchin of Slide, investor Peter Thiel, Janus Friis of Joost and Marc Andreesen and Gina Bianchini of Ning. There are currently no
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09 July 2008
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08 July 2008
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...all here, from industry heavyweights Bill Gates and Barry Diller to "it" entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Max Levchin of Slide, and naturally venture capitalists are on the prowl for startup ideas. That night and for the rest of the confer
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02 July 2008
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...in the water. A lot of us tasted our first success at the hands of PayPal. We were witness and party to a massive success.” Levchin moved on to launch Slide, “the world’s largest publisher of social entertainment applications,” including SuperPoke and
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01 July 2008
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01 July 2008
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28 June 2008
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...Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Max Levchin (Slide) and Evan Williams. These are all great names but compared to Bill and Steve, they’re all playing (with one exceptio
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27 June 2008
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...Brin and Larry Page, Amazon’s (AMZN) Jeff Bezos, and Salesforce.com’s (CRM) Marc Benioff to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Slide’s Max Levchin, and Twitter’s Evan Williams. These are some of the names we came up with for Reuters, who asked us to put toget
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27 June 2008
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...touching the lives of many, still can’t seem to figure out how to make money. As for Levchin, I’m not impressed. Woo-hoo slide shows on myspace profiles. Yawn. Paypal was impressive though, I’ll give him that. And I hear he works pretty hard. I think
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27 June 2008
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22 June 2008
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...the water. A lot of us tasted our first success at the hands of PayPal. We were witness and party to a massive success." Levchin moved on to launch Slide, "the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications," including SuperPoke and F
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20 June 2008
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...us tasted our first success at the hands of PayPal. We were witness and party to a massive success." Levchin moved on to launch Slide, "the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications," including SuperPoke and FunWall. And before st
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09 June 2008
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...claims to have 87.5 million monthly unique visitors with 2.7 billion page views. Along with Slide, founded by dot-com veteran Max Levchin, RockYou is one of the biggest companies in the social-network application development space. And with the $35 mil
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09 June 2008
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...execs have admitted some of their products and features were inspired by competing with RockYou. However Slide has CEO Max Levchin’s impeccable PayPal pedigree, whereas RockYou’s founding was tied up in a lawsuit claiming that Tokuda and cofounder Jia
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08 June 2008
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04 June 2008
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31 May 2008
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...what money meant," Levesque pointed out over coffee. Rupert's character provided a stark example of that. Like Slide's Max Levchin, who has already earned millions in selling PayPal, it's actually his dream to continue doing just that — going to the of
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28 May 2008
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28 May 2008
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28 May 2008
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...the majority of computer users, you can enjoy the snapshots I took. Among the nerdspotting: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Max Levchin of Slide. Figured I'd ask here since Giz is a little busy. Why were you thrown out? Did you crash the conference or
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27 May 2008
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...‘social nets aren’t making much money’ article. This time it’s widget makers on social nets aren’t making much money. Slide CEO Max Levchin told FT that only two or three companies have revenue “in the high single to low double-digit millions [of dolla
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26 May 2008
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...chief executive of Widgetbox, a website that acts as a catalogue for the applications. Max Levchin, chief executive of Slide, the most successful of the widget-makers, declines to discuss finances, though he says that only “two or three” companies have
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24 May 2008
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21 May 2008
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...alumni with successful second acts include Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, founders of YouTube; Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn; and Mr. Levchin, who runs Slide, which makes Facebook applications. Mr. Stoppelman, 30, and Mr. Simmons, 29, started Yelp in July 200
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17 May 2008
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16 May 2008
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15 May 2008
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