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It’s Official: Google Acquires Slide

7 Aug 2010

Google has officially acquired Slide, the social application company founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, in an effort to “make Google services socially aware.” The news of the acquisition surfaced earlier this week, so the announcement comes as no surprise. According to TechCrunch, the sale price was $182 million with an agreement to pay an [...]

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Tags: business coverage, employee retention, far cry, google, Max Levchin, retention bonuses, self expression, social application, social web

PayPal and Bebo Founders Invest in Mixpanel

In: web resources

12 Feb 2010

Mixpanel, a real-time web analytics and analysis service for understanding how users behave with web apps, has just announced a $500,000 angel investment round coming from three of the web’s most successful entrepreneurs: Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and Slide, and Michael and Xochi Birch, the founders of Bebo. The startup already has strong backing [...]

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Tags: angel investment, Bebo, Max Levchin, mountain view ca, new angel, seed investment, web analytics, web apps, Y Combinator

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