Slide has developed customizable and easily assembled slide shows of photos that can be embedded in a blog or a MySpace page, sent out in an RSS feed, and streamed to a desktop as a screensaver.
Funding: Not disclosed (Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla, others)
Founder & CEO: Max Levchin (shown right)
Headquarters: San Francisco
Employees: 45
Founded: 2004
Business model: Advertising, subscription
Bragging rights: Actor Jamie Foxx and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner use Slide on their MySpace pages.
Next up: Doubling staff in 2007; expanding into Asia; adding mobile phone features
Contact: Partners@slide.com
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