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I'm ellis hamburger with the verge here at South by Southwest with path CEO Dave Morin thanks for coming on with us and so you guys actually have some news this week once you tell me about it indeed we rolled out path 3 this week which we're very excited about it includes a new all new messaging private messaging feature stickers feature and then some nice little easter eggs all around the app so 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 half 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 each context that we all interact in every day has different meaning different different requirements I really like the analogy that you know Facebook built the cities we're trying to build the home our friends over at next door are trying to build the neighborhood our friends at couple or building the bedroom or the bed as it were and you know there's a Yammer doing the office right and so 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 and what's your take on some of these ephemeral apps like snapchat or poke that kind of remove the permanence of some of the kind of standards for communication that we're used to today on facebook where something loads 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 right like which neither conversations that you had yesterday even with your closest friends a lot of it just kind of disappears into the ether and so I think that these applications sort of represent the you know more of a human take on how things act things actually work just because you can store all the data doesn't mean you should right and so I actually think on a more philosophical note one of the interesting things to think about is we've sent the last ten years or so in the internet figuring out how to store as much data as possible and now you're seeing the popularization of these applications which actually create the absence of data and so it's an interesting question to ask is is this trend going to be a big one over the next ten 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 like down the line but maybe we're not quite there yet or like what stuff do you really like these days that that you're really inspired by it's kind of out there I'm pretty inspired by 3d printing I think that it's a I think it represents something much further off than what we're seeing with it today you know with you see you look at it today and it and it's a you know it's it prints some little pieces of plastic right but 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 or over Christmas I saw somebody did a 3d printing of Christmas cookies or clothing you know why can't we replace the closet like with the 3d printer these kinds of things are even a house you know I can't wait for the day that a 3d printer is like the size of a semi truck and can build a house right so there's I think there's some really interesting and disruptive ideas in that realm and I think more than anything it represents the idea that manufacturing is 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 is that changed you know I would say a couple of years ago amongst you know a small set of people it was probably a great way to figure out where the good parties are where the you know where everyone's at right now I would say this year last night you know i was actually noticing that i was getting more information from path about where the good stuff going on was than I've ever have been and I think there's been a big shift there you know we've got a lot more people on the service today you know we're well over six million users now growing really fast and I make for us this year is going to be a lot about refining and purifying and simplifying everything that we're doing and we've got a few other cool things up our sleeve for the rest of the year yeah well thanks so much for joining us Dave yeah thank you