Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare. Read full biography of Dennis Crowley →
The best version of Foursquare is the one you don't think about using.
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... →
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... →
Asking Siri where the nearest sushi bar is - that's not interesting. What's interesting is asking your phone where one of your friends have... →
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... →
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen.... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me.... →
It's difficult to build services that are supposed to scale to, you know, 30, 50, 100 million users right off the bat because they got to be kind... →
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... →
My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was... →