Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowleyis an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 June 1976
CountryUnited States of America
sketching building
Stop sketching. Start building.
ideas tvs social
I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.
people problem great-things
Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.
ideas people
Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.
what-you-love
Do what you love and the rest will come.
business entrepreneur want
If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.
accessible claimed million national retailers running specials
We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful.
checking francisco happening huge san seen south york
The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.
clear delivering faces good map might social
It's very clear to users, more clear than in other apps, that Foursquare is an app for search and discovery, and we're very good at delivering you a social map that will show you friends' faces on the map and things that you might like.
calling number people share stuff time
I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.
check continue deals interested offer smarter time type
Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.
anywhere billion latitude minutes people
People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.
build earlier found liked using
I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it.
came felt people
You know when people leave a job, and they say they didn't know what they came away with after two years? That's how I felt when I first left Google.