 I'm Ellis Hamburger with The Verge here at South by Southwest with Path CEO Dave Morin. Thanks for coming on with us. Thanks for having us. So you guys actually have some news this week. Why don't you tell me about it? Indeed. We rolled out Path 3 this week, which we're very excited about. It includes all new messaging, private messaging feature, stickers feature, and then some nice little Easter eggs all around the app. So do you think that down the line people are going to have one social networking app that they turn to for their most meaningful communication? Or are people going to have Path and Facebook and Tumblr and Twitter and Snapchat? I think it'll probably grow. I don't think that there will be an infinite number, but I think there will be quite a few. I think that each context that we all interact in every day has different meaning, different requirements. I really like the analogy that Facebook built the cities, we're trying to build the home. Our friends over at Nextdoor are trying to build the neighborhood. Our friends at Coupl are building the bedroom, or the bed as it were. There's Yammer doing the office. I think that as Facebook's done a really good job of providing an identity layer for the entire internet, and now there's an opportunity to build these contextual experiences around these individual pieces of our lives where you want to walk into a different room to have a different experience. What's your take on some of these ephemeral apps like Snapchat or Poke that kind of remove the permanence of some of the standards for communication that we're used to today on Facebook where something lives forever? What's interesting is if you think about all of the conversations that you have in your real life, you don't remember a lot of them. The conversations that you had yesterday, even with your closest friends, a lot of it just kind of disappears into the ether. I think that these applications represent more of a human take on how things actually work. Just because you can store all of the data doesn't mean you should. I actually think on a more philosophical note, one of the interesting things to think about is we've spent the last 10 years or so on the internet figuring out how to store as much data as possible. Now you're seeing the popularization of these applications which actually create the absence of data. It's an interesting question to ask. Is this trend going to be a big one over the next 10 years? Are we going to see a proliferation of applications which create the absence of data rather than storing it? What do you kind of see as being something that is going to be awesome down the line, but maybe we're not quite there yet? What stuff do you really like these days that you're really inspired by? That's kind of out there. I'm pretty inspired by 3D printing. I think it represents something much further off than what we're seeing with it today. You look at it today and it prints some little pieces of plastic. My sense that the killer app for 3D printing is probably food. I'm still waiting for someone to build a 3D printer for chocolates. Over Christmas I saw somebody did a 3D printing of Christmas cookies or clothing. Why can't we replace the closet with a 3D printer? These kinds of things or even a house. I can't wait for the day that a 3D printer is the size of a semi-truck and can build a house. I think there's some really interesting and disruptive ideas in that realm. I think more than anything it represents the idea that manufacturing no longer needs to be centralized. It doesn't need to be in a factory. You can sort of push it out and have it in everybody's homes. When you look at how people are using Path today versus let's say at South By a year or two ago, how has that changed? I would say a couple of years ago amongst a small set of people it was probably a great way to figure out where the good parties are, where everyone's at right now. I would say this year, last night, I was actually noticing that I was getting more information from Path about where the good stuff going on was than I ever have been. I think there's been a big shift there. We've got a lot more people on the service today. We're well over six million users now, growing really fast. I think for us this year is going to be a lot about refining and purifying and simplifying everything that we're doing. We've got a few other cool things up our sleeve for the rest of the year. Thanks so much for joining us, Dave. Yeah, thank you.
 I'm Ellis Hamburger with The Verge here at South by Southwest with Path CEO Dave Morin.
 Thanks for coming on with us.
 Thanks for having us.
 So you guys actually have some news this week.
 Why don't you tell me about it?
 Indeed.
 We rolled out Path 3 this week, which we're very excited about.
 It includes all new messaging, private messaging feature, stickers feature, and then some nice
 little Easter eggs all around the app.
 So do you think that down the line people are going to have one social networking app
 that they turn to for their most meaningful communication?
 Or are people going to have Path and Facebook and Tumblr and Twitter and Snapchat?
 I think it'll probably grow.
 I don't think that there will be an infinite number, but I think there will be quite a
 few.
 I think that each context that we all interact in every day has different meaning, different
 requirements.
 I really like the analogy that Facebook built the cities, we're trying to build the home.
 Our friends over at Nextdoor are trying to build the neighborhood.
 Our friends at Coupl are building the bedroom, or the bed as it were.
 There's Yammer doing the office.
 I think that as Facebook's done a really good job of providing an identity layer for the
 entire internet, and now there's an opportunity to build these contextual experiences around
 these individual pieces of our lives where you want to walk into a different room to
 have a different experience.
 What's your take on some of these ephemeral apps like Snapchat or Poke that kind of remove
 the permanence of some of the standards for communication that we're used to today on
 Facebook where something lives forever?
 What's interesting is if you think about all of the conversations that you have in your
 real life, you don't remember a lot of them.
 The conversations that you had yesterday, even with your closest friends, a lot of it
 just kind of disappears into the ether.
 I think that these applications represent more of a human take on how things actually
 work.
 Just because you can store all of the data doesn't mean you should.
 I actually think on a more philosophical note, one of the interesting things to think about
 is we've spent the last 10 years or so on the internet figuring out how to store as
 much data as possible.
 Now you're seeing the popularization of these applications which actually create the absence
 of data.
 It's an interesting question to ask.
 Is this trend going to be a big one over the next 10 years?
 Are we going to see a proliferation of applications which create the absence of data rather than
 storing it?
 What do you kind of see as being something that is going to be awesome down the line,
 but maybe we're not quite there yet?
 What stuff do you really like these days that you're really inspired by?
 That's kind of out there.
 I'm pretty inspired by 3D printing.
 I think it represents something much further off than what we're seeing with it today.
 You look at it today and it prints some little pieces of plastic.
 My sense that the killer app for 3D printing is probably food.
 I'm still waiting for someone to build a 3D printer for chocolates.
 Over Christmas I saw somebody did a 3D printing of Christmas cookies or clothing.
 Why can't we replace the closet with a 3D printer?
 These kinds of things or even a house.
 I can't wait for the day that a 3D printer is the size of a semi-truck and can build
 a house.
 I think there's some really interesting and disruptive ideas in that realm.
 I think more than anything it represents the idea that manufacturing no longer needs to
 be centralized.
 It doesn't need to be in a factory.
 You can sort of push it out and have it in everybody's homes.
 When you look at how people are using Path today versus let's say at South By a year
 or two ago, how has that changed?
 I would say a couple of years ago amongst a small set of people it was probably a great
 way to figure out where the good parties are, where everyone's at right now.
 I would say this year, last night, I was actually noticing that I was getting more information
 from Path about where the good stuff going on was than I ever have been.
 I think there's been a big shift there.
 We've got a lot more people on the service today.
 We're well over six million users now, growing really fast.
 I think for us this year is going to be a lot about refining and purifying and simplifying
 everything that we're doing.
 We've got a few other cool things up our sleeve for the rest of the year.
 Thanks so much for joining us, Dave.
 Yeah, thank you.