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I'll never understand why Max took his Paypal money and built an online widget company. Hopefully he'll attempt something meaningful next time.


Like his meaningful investing in WePay (which does seem meaningful) -http://www.businessinsider.com/max-levchin-is-pretty-excited...


Or Yelp.


Slide was originally supposed to be a revolutionary way to organize and share photos. But they found monetization in the social network sphere and seemed to focus on that.


Slide started out as a global recommendation push engine for shopping items. They pivoted to a widget company when it took off.




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