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If the game designer produces...

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, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

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We're all put on Earth for a ...

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

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You can have successful teams...

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

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I think the hallmark of a rea...

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 the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.

Max Levchin 31 quotes

If you can work a brand succe...

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 say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.

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The very first company I star...

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, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

Max Levchin 31 quotes

Being an entrepreneur is not ...

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

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Think of Slide as a giant med...

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 - it's whatever they want it to be.

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Media is very different from ...

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 other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.

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You're going to pull out your...

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 saw that very early on. And when we launched the mobile product, we saw immediate growth, and we were stunned.

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As I was getting interviewed ...

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 bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck's. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.

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I never wear suits. ...

I never wear suits.

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We're becoming slaves to our ...

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 soon you have market winners.

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One of the things we did at P...

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.

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If we compare the two, Facebo...

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. It's like broadcast radio.

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If I see what you're up to on...

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.

Max Levchin 31 quotes

If you can work a brand succe...

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 say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'

Max Levchin 31 quotes

Facebook is so ubiquitous now...

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

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If you're building a social p...

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

Max Levchin 31 quotes

You can't get married to any ...

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Max Levchin 31 quotes

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