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Max Levchin co-founded PayPal, and stayed with the company through its IPO and sale to eBay. Clearly, Levchin has experienced building a startup in a very competitive sector. Now he finds himself in yet another crowded sector - photo sharing. I asked him if he's applying any lessons he learned from his PayPal days. He said that what's he learned is that having an idea is 2% of what it takes to win, 98% is execution.
Solid interview. Glad you see you pressed on how these services could grow into the mainstream.
Posted by: Greg | January 17, 2006 at 09:30 PM
Cool stuff bambi. I wonder if he regrets selling paypal now or if he's happy to have moved on to new and different projects. Maybe he bought shares of eBay with some of the money he made from selling. :)
I'm always interested in working on different projects. I could understand if he never really wanted to own paypal for an extended period, but I wonder if the same will be true of this company. Afterall, everyone has their price.
BTW, do you schedule these interviews yourself or does Marketwatch schedule all of these and who comes up with the questions? Would it ever be possible to let the users know of some upcoming interviews and submit questions? Keep up the good work.
-Jeff
Havenskate.com
Posted by: Jeff | January 20, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Hey Bambi, no new posts from you in a long time (interviewing Guy Kawasaki could not be THAT bad???) Missing your insightful interviews and trends comments. Get back to it!!!
Posted by: Sergei | February 22, 2006 at 11:33 AM
Sorry. I've been on vacation in Maui for two weeks. I'm back.
Posted by: Bambi | February 23, 2006 at 10:00 PM
Would you please provide me the email address of Max Levchin or his secretary's email address?
I and my partners, we have a plan to found a Chinese News Review Website, which will be the first news review website in China, we have confidence in its future market since China has the most internet communication people in the world, appr.200 million but we need money to start this plan. After reading your article, we think Max Levchin may be the person we are looking for. We want to send this plan to him, trying to know if he has interest in it.
Will you help us? If you need, we can send some parts of our plan for your reference.
Rgds.
Xiao Su
South Weekly Newspaper, China
Posted by: george chen | February 26, 2007 at 03:07 PM
In your opinion, what's the best movie ever created?
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