In 2008, I interned at Slide, Inc. and it was one of the most valuable summers of my life. I went from being a college hacker interested in starting a company to learning the intricacies of product design and working with a team.<p>At Slide, Inc. we stayed up late hacking (because we wanted to), I learned about product from an awesome product manager named Adora, and Max Levchin worked closely on a product that didn't necessarily have immense amount of business value for Slide.<p>After my internship, I had huge takeways:<p>- I wanted to start a company.<p>- I knew grad school didn't matter out in California<p>- I grew a huge network at Slide who became some of my closest friends.<p>- I learned smaller things like: git, python, vim, etc.<p>- I could have never built Mixpanel without having been at Slide first.<p>- Max Levchin ended up investing in our company during the recession - a time when it was hard to raise money.<p>At Mixpanel, we value our internship program because of this. Last year, we asked our interns to talk about their experiences: http://code.mixpanel.com/2011/11/15/internship-stories/<p>If you're looking for similar experience, please apply for an internship by emailing: jobs@mixpanel.com with the subject "Internship"<p>Sincerely,<p>Suhail<p>Founder @ Mixpanel, Inc.