Corporate restructuring, path or a good "private social" application?

"No matter what company, there is a group of star investors who do not mean to make good products, and visual effects are not equal to good products," said an unnamed person on the Quora website. "What he said was Path. The company, which has been known for its "intimate social" concept and design, has just confirmed to the media last week that it has laid off 13 people, accounting for 20% of its employees. A spokesman for the official declined to disclose the specifics of the job cuts, and media Valleywag, who broke the path, said the 500 million dollar valuation that the path had revealed in July was likely to be changed to 400 million. Although it still claims to have more than 20 million registered users, if we look at the development path of this "private social" product, it is clear that it is no longer private. Dave Morin, who resigned from Facebook in 2010 to build his Path from the outset, said it was a private social network for friends and family, limiting the number of friends to 50. In 2012, path changed that figure to 150. On the official blog, they say, according to the study by Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford University, "150 people are the largest number of social relationships that the human brain can endure at any given time." Behind this change is the need for path to content activity and the increase in the number of registered users. From 2010 to the end of 2012, path has been growing slowly until September 2012, when Dave Morin participated in TechCrunch Disrupt,path's number of users just over 3 million. To get more users, since the end of 2012, PATH has worked with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Gmail, where users can share their behavior on the path and invite friends to join. This has a positive impact on the path's user growth--more than 10 million users in the path in April 2013, and the number released so far is 20 million. Ironically, the path 3.2 update of September this year added a new feature "Inner Circle", adding a star to the interface, allowing users to add a private circle of friends based on existing friends This is no different from how we can set up a group using Facebook or even Sina Weibo, which is clearly becoming a huge social network from a private social application, and now "privacy" is just one of those features. So the user may be confronted with a problem--the reason for using path. In September 2012 Dave Morin changed his mind on TechCrunch Disrupt, saying that path became an online journal application for documenting photos and ideas that could only be shared with close friends. At the same time declaring path's first bigThe market is the United States, the second largest user market is China. We all know that domestic users can not log on to Facebook and Twitter, in Sina Weibo, micro-trust and other similar applications, path in user interface design and interactive design is really very prominent. Even so, now the Path of the user may still be the speed of its slow load--speed is a software service users the most basic conditions, even if the concept of the product, interactive design again, if not even the most basic user experience can not meet, everything else can not talk about.