"Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact."

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Source : "Max Levchin on Slide’s big virtual goods bet, scams and — mating". Interview with Kim-Mai Cutler, venturebeat.com. November 5, 2009.

Max Levchin

#Believe Quotes #Media Quotes #Impact Quotes

“Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity. It is no secret that when they go up, temperatures in the world's oceans trigger the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations.”
“The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.”
“While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very modest success compared to the advance of the Mohammedan faith in particular- right here in Europe they lose millions and millions of inward adherents who either are alien to all religious life or simply go their own ways. The consequences, particularly from a moral point of view, are not favorable.”
“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”

Source : "Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt". Yale Daily News, 1994.
“The press made me something I really wasn't and I tried to live up to what they made me.”
“I was fascinated by movies from age 12.”
“I should have written books instead of reading them.”
“You donâ€™t get it, do you?" I said. â€œItâ€™s not a question of â€˜what thenâ€™. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and thatâ€™s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So whatâ€™s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?”

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