Max Levchin

Hot Analytics Start-Up Mixpanel Raises $10.25M Led by Andreessen Horowitz

Liz Gannes in Enterprise on May 10 at 8:16 am PT

All the start-ups I talk to these days seem to be using Mixpanel analytics.

QOTD: Yeah, Tough to Do Anything Capital-Intensive With a Paltry $50 Billion …

Saddened by Apple’s plan for a huge dividend. Apparently, they have nothing truly capital-intensive in the product pipeline.

– Max Levchin, founder and CEO of Slide, bemoans Apple’s plan to spend just under half of its behemoth cash pile on dividends and stock buybacks

Yammer Lands $85 Million Funding Round From Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 29 at 11:58 am PT

The rumors are true. But, boy, were they ever off on the numbers.

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.

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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.