Max Levchin

Ready to Rumble or Make Nice? Activist Shareholder Daniel Loeb Could Strike Sooner Than Yahoo Thinks.

Kara Swisher in News on February 9 at 10:14 am PT

It’s like the movie “The Gray,” except it’s not clear yet who gets eaten and who does the eating.

Get Your Zombie-Eaten Brain Ready for Some Big-Think Tech Books

Kara Swisher in Media on December 28, 2011 at 7:18 am PT

Time for some reading beyond 140 characters!

What I Learned

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

Max Levchin, co-founder and former CTO of PayPal, on lessons learned as a young entrepreneur

Exclusive: Max Levchin to Leave Google as Slide Is Shut Down

Liz Gannes in Social on August 25, 2011 at 5:35 pm PT

Slide, the social apps company that Google bought just over a year ago for about $200 million, will be dissolved; its well-regarded leader Max Levchin will depart Google.

News Byte

Listia Raises Cash from Andreessen Horowitz for Bartering Marketplace

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 19, 2011 at 9:32 am PT

Listia has raised a round of funding totaling $1.75 million, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Others participating include: SV Angel, Founder Collective, High Line Venture Partners, Max Levchin, Naval Ravikant, Alex Zubillaga, James Hong and others. The company’s marketplace essentially allows people to barter, handing out credits when you give something away that can be cashed in to buy something for free. The funding will be used to hire developers and to continue a move into mobile that includes the recent release of an iPhone app.

Where's the Other Twin, Sergey Brin, Been During GoogQuake?

John Paczkowski in News on April 8, 2011 at 5:55 pm PT

Newly restored CEO Larry Page wasted no time in reorganizing Google during his first week on the job, promoting seven executives to oversee Google’s most important divisions. It’s a significant swing of the pendulum and a big move for the Google co-founder. But what of Google’s other co-founder, Sergey Brin–where’s he in all this?

Google Elevates Social From the Search Results Ghetto (But Only When Deemed Worthy)

Liz Gannes in Social on February 17, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

Google is making some careful tweaks to weave social signals into search–most notably, bringing social search results up from the bottom of the page and parsing links shared by friends.

I/O Ventures Returns to Train Second Class of Start-Ups

Liz Gannes in Social on January 20, 2011 at 10:14 am PT

With a swarm of start-up accelerators in the mold of Y Combinator all hitting the tech scene last year, it’s inevitable that some will fall by the wayside. But I/O Ventures, based in San Francisco’s Mission District, will be back for another season, co-founder Paul Bragiel tells NetworkEffect.

Google's 2010 M&A Bill: $1.6 Billion and Counting

Peter Kafka in Media on October 29, 2010 at 2:25 pm PT

Google has spent at least $1.6 billion buying 40 companies during the first nine months of 2010. If you assume the previously announced ITA deal goes through this year, you can tack on another $700 million.

Google Buys Another Piece of Its Social Puzzle

Peter Kafka in Media on August 27, 2010 at 11:09 am PT

Another small start-up gets sucked up into the Googleplex. This one is Angstro, which was supposed to help deliver news to users based on their “social graph.” But founder Rohit Khare has shut the service down and is now working at the search giant.