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
people want done
People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.
people
Don't let other people distract what you're doing. There's always haters.
ideas people passionate
Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
filtered good information noisy people share
People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.
believed bosses companies industry older people ran resistance stuff until work
I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.
people ways whatever
Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.
sketching building
Stop sketching and start building.
over-you helping reaching
I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that youre in over your head.
use apps starting
What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use