- Company
- Foursquare
- Role
- Co-Founder
- Est. Net Worth
- $8 Million (Est.)
- Stage
- Emerging
- Industry
- Hospitality
Dennis Crowley
Co-Founder at Foursquare
About
Dennis Crowley co-founded Foursquare in 2009, building a location-intelligence platform that powers venue recommendations and check-ins for millions of users. He previously created Dodgeball, an early location-based social network acquired by Google.
Current Company
Foursquare — Co-Founder
Inventing Location-Based Social Networking
Dennis Crowley has spent his career at the intersection of technology and urban life. He created Dodgeball in 2000 as a graduate thesis project at NYU — a text-message-based service that let friends share their locations with each other at bars and restaurants. Google acquired Dodgeball in 2005, but Dennis Crowley felt the product was neglected inside the larger company and eventually left to build what he really wanted: Foursquare.
Dennis Crowley co-founded Foursquare in 2009, turning the check-in into a cultural phenomenon. At its peak, Foursquare’s gamified location-sharing — mayorships, badges, and tips — made the app synonymous with going out in cities. Dennis Crowley built Foursquare into a platform that collected one of the richest datasets of real-world location behavior in existence, which the company eventually pivoted into a location intelligence business serving enterprises and advertisers.