| Slide, Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
| Founded | San Francisco, California (May, 2005) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California |
| Key people | Max Levchin, Founder, CEO, and Chairman; Jeremiah Robison, CTO; Kevin Freedman and Keith Rabois, Vice Presidents |
| Services | software applications |
| Website | www.slide.com |
| Type of site | social networking |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Current status | active |
Slide, Inc., operator of the Slide.com website, is a Web 2.0 company founded by Max Levchin and based in San Francisco, California. Originally formed to make photo sharing software for social networking services such as MySpace, the company achieved its greatest success as the largest developer of third-party applications for Facebook.[1]
History
Slide was begun as a project in 2004 and formed in 2005 by Paypal co-founder Max Levchin, who personally invested $1 million in the new company.[2] The company was formed to develop and run a service users would download for their network browsers that would organize photos on their computers and post them to personal blogs.[2] Slide was one of the companies invited to participate in F8, the event at which Facebook announced an open platform allowing third parties to develop and operate their own software applications on the Facebook website. Several of Slide's plugin applications such as "funwall", "fortune cookie", "My Questions", "top friends", and "superpoke" became at various times among the most popular applications on Facebook.[3][4] Slide's first institutional funder was the Founders Fund, a San Francisco venture capital firm operated by former PayPal executives to invest in Web 2.0 start-ups.[5]. Subsequent investors included the Mayfield Fund, Khosla Ventures, and BlueRun Ventures.[5] As of late 2007 Slide's principal competitor was RockYou!,[6] which had recently overtaken Slide's total installed user base.
References
- ^ Jon Swartz. "Widgets make a big splash on the Net", USA Today, November 29, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
- ^ a b Alorie Gilbert. "PayPal co-founder readies photo-sharing service", CNET, August 25, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
- ^ Eric Eldon. "Q&A with Max Levchin: Slide more than a widget-maker", VentureBeat, June 25, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
- ^ Aaron Ricadela. "Slide: Max Levchin's Next Act", Business Week, August 23, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
- ^ a b Eric Auchard. "PayPal founder's photo slideshow site gets funding", Reuters, November 15, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
- ^ Gary Rivlin. "After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again", New York Times, October 28, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-12-23.
External Links
- slide.com - official website
