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To people who use Path - why do you use it over Facebook?
I don't want everyone on Facebook seeing my family photos any more than they want to be flooded with updates from a doting father.
I think this is interesting because this may represent a pullback in the social/mobile consumer space from an investment standpoint. Path is a VC darling given that it raised over $40 million from the likes of KPCB (a firm that also mentioned a direction change[0]). Anyone talking about a SV bubble should consider that some companies with tremendous momentum are scaling back a little bit. It could be a healthy pull b…
That's what happens when you realise that it costs more to acquire a user than you can make money off him/her. There'll probably another layoff in 4 months and another one and then we have an acquihire, yeah! Ugh, I tried to like it, but I just dont like Path. If I can think of a vanity startup with vanity PR, vanity founder, vanity metrics, it's Path. Ugh.
I think this is interesting because this may represent a pullback in the social/mobile consumer space from an investment standpoint. Path is a VC darling given that it raised over $40 million from the likes of KPCB (a firm that also mentioned a direction change[0]). Anyone talking about a SV bubble should consider that some companies with tremendous momentum are scaling back a little bit. It could be a healthy pull b…
I love the market.
According to their site, they are still hiring for five positions. Maybe it's just a massive cleansing?
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Is Path particularly well-regarded?
Not necessarily. But Silicon Valley engineers with startup experience who just lost their job and are likely to accept lowball offers so they can continue to pay their hyper-inflated apartment leases, those people are highly sought after.
NOT EVERYONE WHO MOVES TO THE BAY AREA LIVES OR NEEDS TO LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THERE ARE A PLETHORA OF OPTIONS.
Look at a map, jeesh.
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lol.... that honestly made me laugh. I never read the interview before but will make use of that line sometime. Regarding path, they need to boost numbers, so started exploiting peoples address books, when this worked they raised more money but those users where spammed and probably just deleted the app. The only thing i hear about path is the design, if you did a frequency distribution of word usage in path articles…
Here's a great breakdown of the interview: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...
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Some context for those who don't know the reference. > "I don’t use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense." [1] [1] http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...
I wonder which phone Techcrunch called. They might have called his night phone this morning.
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Is Path particularly well-regarded?
Not necessarily. But Silicon Valley engineers with startup experience who just lost their job and are likely to accept lowball offers so they can continue to pay their hyper-inflated apartment leases, those people are highly sought after.