Max Levchin Becomes the Internet’s New Wacky Pix Guy!
by Kara Swisher
Posted on April 23, 2008 at 12:29 AM PT
Oh, Max!
I just got through telling someone who asked me that I thought you, Slide founder Max Levchin, was one of the smarter Web 2.0 characters.
Then, of course, you get to be on the cover of Portfolio magazine for its “Brilliant” issue this month. Apparently, Max, you are Silicon Valley’s new “It” Boy.
But for all your apparently massive amount of brain cells, which should be on display at your keynote today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, how can you be so dumb as to stumble into that same old rabbit hole as so many other Internet hotshots?
Yes, Max: The goofy photo.
In your case, you look good in the coat-and-tie get-up. But please tell me why, oh, why are you balancing a giant lightbulb on the top of your head, as seen here?
It just ain’t dignified!
(Levchin revealed to me via email last night that he actually balanced the monster bulb on his head–but I remain unimpressed.)
Still, you can be comforted to know, though, that you join a legion of other legendarily goony tech figures in the continued march of egregiously wacky pictures.
Such as:
Microsoft’s Bill Gates and his prom date, a PC:
That lovely couple, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, and those irksome colorful exercise balls (not that there is anything wrong with that):
Digg’s Kevin Rose channels Wayne’s World:
Former Netscaper Marc Andreessen as Le Dauphin of France:
And, my personal choice for goofy-de-tutti-goofball photos–Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with his noggin in a box:
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