Quotes by Max Levchin

Max Levchin

A classic engineering mistake and one I’ve made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

Confusing

Engineering

Mistake

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.

Guy

Sleep

Wall

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

Being In Love

Ideas

Running

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

Ads

Audience

Susceptible

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

Manifestation

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not – cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

Cutting

Etc

Team

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

Crazy

Ideas

Notebook

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.

Entrepreneur

Goal

Thinking

I’ve been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

Important

Mobile

Years

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.

Care

Stills

Updates

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Ads

Agents

Apps

Audience

Becoming

Being In Love

Believe

Building

Care

Challenges

Confusing

Crazy

Cutting

Data

Design

Diversity

Earth

Engineering

Entrepreneur

Etc

Fun

Games

Goal

Good Enough

Growth

Guy

Hate

Ideas

Impact

Important

Inspirational

Inspiring

Iphone

Jobs

Lasts

Lessons

Levels

Long

Manifestation

Married

Media

Mistake

Mobile

Narrative

Notebook

Numbers

Paypal

People

Perfect

Phones

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Quotes by Max Levchin

Max Levchin

A classic engineering mistake and one I’ve made is confusing what is hard and what is valuable.

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

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

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

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not – cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

I have this massive notebook called IDEAS and another one called PERSONAL IDEAS and another one called CRAZY IDEAS.

I’ve been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

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.

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