Max Levchin Quotes

Look for when the environment is changing - the big shift now is mobile Internet. It's really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite different, so there's a huge opportunity.

The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

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

I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu.

Everyone is panicked about the transition to mobile. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever.

The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.

Everything's mobile these days. Let's go mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ test. When you see bold new startups with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on.

It's very hard to cheaply build anything significant in a multi-platform, mobile world.

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.

With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

Sponsored stories are not a great way to monetize mobile traffic. The phone is way more of a publishing tool than a reading tool. The attention users pay to the streams on mobile is far less than on the desktop.

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

Millennials' tech and global savvy will make them instrumental in shaping our mobile future worldwide.

A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.

Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.

The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.

You can't ignore mobile. We are doing a lot of stuff in the game space, mostly nonconsole stuff, and those are primarily mobile/pad games.

InMobi is passionate about pushing the limits of business and mobile technology.

We all know that mobile's going to change the world.

When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.