Foursquare's Founder on Making the Internet Fun Again + His New App — With Dennis Crowley

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of Foursquare. He joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about what made the internet fun, why it's lost some of its magic, and how to restore it. He also introduces a new app, called BeeBot, that will deliver short, contextual audio messages to you as you walk around cities. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss whether Web3 can still work, how AI changes things, and whether Crowley's buying a Vision Pro. Listen for a fun, energetic conversation about the web's evolution and where it might go from here. --- You can join the waitlist for BeeBot here. You can read Dennis's Thread on starting something new here. ---

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0:00.0	The co-founder and former CEO of Foursquare joins us to talk about his new project,
0:05.1	how to make the internet fun again, and his thoughts on the latest tech news from AI to mixed reality.
0:09.7	You don't want to miss this one. All that and more coming up right after this.
0:13.8	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:18.3	What would it take to abolish poverty? Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:23.7	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea. I'm Rufus Griscombe,
0:29.1	and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers for in-depth conversations that
0:34.5	will help you live, work, and play smarter. Follow the next big idea wherever you get your podcasts.
0:43.6	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation with the tech world and beyond.
0:49.4	We have a great show for you today.
0:51.0	We have a legendary New York founder and also someone who's going to introduce a new
0:55.8	product that he's working on, which is very exciting for us here today. I won't take up any more time in the
1:00.4	intro. Dennis Crowley, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me on the pod. Really excited to be here.
1:06.1	Yeah, thanks for being here. Let's just kind of talk about the state of four square because I think the meme is that it, you know, it was big for a number of years. It's like 15 years old at this point. Now it's two
1:15.1	apps. There's four square city reviews, I think, and then there's the swarm app where you can check in.
1:19.7	And I think there's a view that it had its moment. Now it's kind of dormant. It's moved into ad tech, right? There's been some location services that
1:29.2	Foursquare has provided, but I think it's kind of murky after that. So I checked the App Store
1:34.0	today. Both those apps have updated within the past three months, so it's still active. But
1:38.7	tell us a little bit about the Foursquare story arc and where we are today. Yeah, I mean, we started four square in 2009 and now it's 2024.
1:48.0	So that's like, is that like 15 years?
1:50.0	I mean, I could do that.
1:52.0	And, you know, I was CEO of the company for six years.
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