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. Dennis Crowley Read Quote
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. Dennis Crowley Read Quote
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. Dennis Crowley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dennis Crowley Read Quote
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you’ve had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense. Dennis Crowley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dennis Crowley Read Quote
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. Dennis Crowley Read Quote
