Recode Decode: Dennis Crowley and Jeff Glueck, co-founder and CEO, Foursquare

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley and CEO Jeff Glueck talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the location intelligence company is generating sellable data for partners like Apple, Uber and Twitter based on its users' check-ins. Glueck, who took over as CEO for Crowley in January 2015, compares the company's new business model to "Robin Hood" because it simultaneously helps small businesses and charges the big ones. The two also discuss where they'd like to see location tech go, including the idea of a talking virtual assistant — similar to Scarlett Johansson's character Samantha from the movie "Her" — that speaks to you like a friend and recommends new places to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's sponsor is Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price.
0:05.6	Get $50 toward any mattress purchased by visiting Casper.com, slash Recode and using the promo code Recode.
0:11.4	Terms and conditions apply.
0:15.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by digital media.
0:21.4	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:25.0	You may know me as the actual future mayor of San Francisco, and I do not mean on four square,
0:29.9	but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players,
0:35.3	big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:38.0	You can subscribe to Recode Decode at iTunes.com slash Recode Decode and while you're there, leave us a review.
0:45.0	Today in the red chair are Dennis Crowley, the Executive Chairman of Four Square,
0:49.5	someone I've known for a very long time, and Jeff Glick, the CEO of Four Square,
0:54.0	who recently got the job.
0:55.6	Dennis co-founded the local Discovery App in 2009 and Jeff joined the company in 2014 as its CEO.
1:02.4	He became CEO in January of this year.
1:04.7	Dennis and Jeff, welcome to the show.
1:06.8	Hi, thanks for having us.
1:08.2	Good to see you.
1:08.8	Dennis, I'm going to start with you.
1:09.8	We go back a long ways when you were a dodgeball, when you were a long time ago.
1:13.7	That's right, yeah, back to 2005.
1:15.4	Explain for the people who may not know of your internet fame, which I do, what that was.
1:20.4	Yeah, dodgeball was our grad school thesis project out of the ITP program at NYU.
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