Top 20 Dennis Crowley Quotes

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Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should

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.
Dennis Crowley
I use Facebook all the time. I’m not a believer that they’re going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
Dennis Crowley
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.
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I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you’re in over your head.
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I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.
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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.
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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.
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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 of tailored down; by definition, they have to be a little bit generic to speak to that large of an audience.
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Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.
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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 unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don’t know if that’s ever gonna change.
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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.
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The best version of Foursquare is the one you don’t think about using.
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Don’t let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about ‘won’t work’ – it’s happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you’re probably right.
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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. Stop sketching, and start building.
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I’m obsessed with the idea of social TV.
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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 last had dinner in the neighborhood, or having it recommend a cool paella place in Barcelona because it knows you eat paella all the time at home.
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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.
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I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now it’s down to eight.
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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.
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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. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I’ve spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.
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