Dennis Crowley Co-founder of Foursquare and Creator of Marsbot - Voicebot Podcast Ep 179

Dennis Crowley is co-founder and executive chairman of
Foursquare, a pioneer in the rise of the mobile, local, and
social apps famous for pioneering the venue check-in concept.
Today, it supports popular consumer apps and a large enterprise
business around consumer geolocation data. The company has
150,000 developer partners and says it powers location
experiences for more than 1 billion people globally.


Foursquare recently introduced Marsbot, an audio AR solution
(i.e. a proactive walking assistant) that creates a reason to
keep your hearables in all day when moving around a city or town.
Marsbot harvests the nearly endless data from Foursquare's
community and whispers nuggets of content to users as they go
through specific locations.


Crowley started out in the early dotcom days as a research
analyst and then became known for organizing large scale games
that integrated technology with real-world settings. He then
founded Dodgeball which was location-based social software for
mobile devices and was acquired by Google in 2005. That led to
some time at Google as a product manager before co-founding
Foursquare in 2009.