5. This success to Max Levchin was Slide becoming bigger than PayPal. Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games* along with the $182m purchase price, Google has agreed to pay an additional $46m in employee retention bonuses, making the total deal size $228m.
7. About Slide Launched August 2005 Headquarters San Francisco, California Reach 200+ countries 155+ million unique people/month (comScore, combined on/off Facebook estimate) 100 SuperPokes a second 5 million sheep thrown a day Major Networks Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut & more Advertisers Starbucks, Sunkist, Activision, AT&T Wireless, Discovery Channel, Estee Lauder, McDonald's, Lionsgate Films, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures & more Investors Mayfield Fund, Blue Run Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund
11. 个人理念: Once a geek , forever a geek 极客精神的核心是好奇心 如果你做一件事情的唯一目的在于赚钱,那么我相信最终你会觉得无聊而丧失热情的。因为一旦你变得非常富有,你所感兴趣的东西就只有一样,就是继续赚钱;但是如果你做事的目的在于不断学习,那么你会不断发现很多引起你兴趣的东西,因为总有值得你学习的东西,学习无止境。所以,我想好奇心对于极客来说是一种非常重要的精神。 对金钱很好奇,所以我创立了 Paypal 对虚拟世界好奇,所以创立了 Slide.com.