Max Levchin Quotes & Sayings

“Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.”

“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.”

“I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.”

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

“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.”

“The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I never wear suits.”