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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• Max Levchin:

  Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being suscepti

• Max Levchin:

  The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

• Max Levchin:

  Technology has come a long way since PayPal.

• Max Levchin:

  I never wear suits.

• Max Levchin:

  If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the peop

• Max Levchin:

  Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in t

• Max Levchin:

  One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at pat

• Max Levchin:

  I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They c

• Max Levchin:

  Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.

• Max Levchin:

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