Max Levchin joins Google

Author: Lukas Kubina

Max Levchin, who was the chief executive of Slide and a PayPal co-founder, has landed a new title at Google as a vice president of engineering. It's the latest leadership adjustment since the search giant bought the social developer for a reported $182 million plus $46 million in retention bonuses.

Read more about the Slide acquisition and how it might fit into Google's social plans in our previous blog entry. For more background information please watch Max on the the DLD 2009 "Software" panel with fellow panellists Joel Spolsky , Daniel Ek, Suhas Gopinath, Hendrik Speck, and moderation by Marissa Mayer (Google).

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