Dave Morin
Dave Morin
Dave Morin is an American entrepreneur, angel investor, and the CEO and co-founder of the social network Path. A former manager at Facebook, he co-created the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
bedroom conversation happened home house love people private sleeping
People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.
hardest love pieces
Frankly, the hardest pieces of feedback we got in the U.S. was, 'I would love if more of our friends were on Path. It's hard to get them to join.'
concept create product start super trying
When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.
friction love low people
In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.
time users
Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.
In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.
runs takes
I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
constant creative demand immense oftentimes process puts
As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.