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How to watch a video on Path without anyone knowing

On Bakrie’s Investment in Path

Some facts about Path’s Bakrie investment.

Anindya Bakrie led this move.
$25 million is spread among eight investment companies.
Bakrie Global led the round, which means as an individual investor, the group put in the most money this time compared to the others.
Nobody is saying how much each investor put in.

Path has raised $65 million so far. $10 million in series A, $30 million in series B, and $25 million in series C according to Morin.
The $30 million was raised in 2012 at $250 million valuation, although AllThingsD said it was $40 million.
If it was a $40 million round, that meant $75 million raised total.
Path closed a $7 million down round (lower/flat valuation than previous) in late 2013 from a number of investors including Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Not sure if this $7 million is included in the $25 million just announced.

The $25 million investment closed this month from Bakrie et al at a valuation higher than $250 million but not disclosed, possibly up to $400 million.
Path was looking to raise $50 million at $500 million valuation in July 2013.
TechCrunch reported In July 2013 that Path was negotiating with an Asian private equity group.
According to TechCrunch, Path actually closed that $50 million round but TC also reported today that the series C didn’t close until today. Conflicting reports.

This means Bakrie’s investment may be significant but doesn’t necessarily make it the largest individual outside shareholder and it’s share in the company isn’t as big of a deal as many Indonesians would make it out to be.

Cross posting this to my Tumblr and will include reference links here later. – Read on Path.

Thought via Path

The new search on Path 2.9 is an acceptable feature in lieu of actual periodical query, which may yet still be added. For people who treat Path as a personal blog, being able to search posts by month would be priceless.

If it had tags to categorize them, it’d be even better. And then we’d have Path as the ultimate mobile blog network, going head to head with Blogger and WordPress but for private audience. It might supplant Facebook for this purpose because I don’t think people use Facebook in this way even though its clearly capable of doing that.

I think my mind just exploded with ideas. – Read on Path.

If Twitter is the backchannel of life, Path is the backchannel of Twitter

I’ve been so hooked on Path, it has managed to replace Twitter as my go to app every morning.

I love the private sharing feature it imposes on its members and I have no qualms rejecting sharing requests from people I know simply to limit my spread of updates. It’s not like I’ve left Twitter. My primary presence is still on Twitter but for a lot of personal updates, Path really is the place. Twitter is the public plaza where you seek out general news and other info.

Google+ would have been it though if the mobile app wasn’t so shit in the first place. Despite the focus on design Google has taken in recent months, its mobile app developers haven’t seem to be able to grasp how important a well-designed interface is when it comes to applications. The team has some serious issues to address.

Perhaps I’m part of an elite snob whose view on mobile apps have been so skewed by Apple’s near-meticulous designs, that I place a stronger emphasis on interface design in delivering functions, although Apple’s own apps are beginning to look ridiculous themselves lately.

Honestly there’s little to differentiate between Path and Facebook on mobile but Path isn’t full of people whose updates I don’t give a shit about. I mean yeah, I added those people on Facebook because I used to know them or I just met them but the kinds of things they share on Facebook are either duplicates of what they said on Twitter or that I’m so far removed from them these days that whatever they posted just fails to catch my interest anymore.

I set up this blog for Jakarta’s early Twitter adopters and as it turns out, Path is taking over the role what Twitter used to be back in the days of 2007-2008. 

Twitter is now like the mall and Path is that street corner cafe where you and your closest friends hang out. This is a funny analogy because back in 2008, Facebook was the mall and Twitter was the corner cafe. So what is Facebook now? I have no idea, I couldn’t care less and I only use it for messaging.

The other day I said that if Twitter is the backchannel of life, Path is the backchannel of Twitter.