Path CEO: ‘We Thought We Were Doing This Right’

Path CEO Dave Morin explains why his app collects address book data, and how he plans to make good with his users. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com

SAN FRANCISCO, California — “We thought we were doing this the right way. It turns out, we made a mistake.”

Dave Morin, the CEO and creator of social media app Path, tells me this as we sit in his 22nd-floor headquarters in downtown San Francisco. It’s a mere 24 hours after an independent app developer exploded Morin’s world with a simple blog post that led to a torrent of bad publicity.

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