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Web 2.0 - Keynote With Max Levchin

Posted on April 25th, 2008 by Simon Chen

Charlene Li from Forrester interviews Max Levchin from Slide at the first Keynote of the Expo.

I only recently learned who Max was - which is probably the way he likes it. Fame and fortune came his way with the creation of PayPal and he gracefully exited PayPal with US$1.5 billon of eBay’s money.

Most entrepreneurs in the room breathed a collective sigh of relief when Max recounted the 4 failed start-ups and an obliterated credit history before finding success with PayPal.

He’s clearly excited about the future of Slide. Who wouldn’t be given the mass exposure their applications receive within Facebook. According tho the Slide website they reach 144 million global viewers each and every month and have 30% of the US internet audience. (Slide make those zany applications like Funwall and Superpoke).

Max strikes me as still the sort of guy who doesn’t really know what all the fuss is about, is clearly uncomfortable about the fame and attention and simply wants to get on with his quiet world domination plans.

Bravo.

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