Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowleyis an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth19 June 1976
CountryUnited States of America
ideas tvs social
I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.
bored sketching dodgeball
Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.
strong team thinking
Hire the best people you can find. This was kind of easy in the early days of foursquare - we hired our friends who were really passionate about the stuff they were building. We have a superstar team not just because their resumes are so strong, but because they've been passionate, thinking about and tinkering in this space forever. Those are the people you want to surround yourself with.
use apps starting
What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use
over-you helping reaching
I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that youre in over your head.
sketching building
Stop sketching and start building.
people problem great-things
Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.
people want done
People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.
atm change five gonna lived money stuck unsure whether
My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.
facebook future tense
Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
people ways whatever
Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.
cheek conference easter facebook hands kissed literally meet regular run seems social three twitter
Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or kissed on the cheek at Easter. Twitter seems to be everyone I am entertained by or I wish to meet some day. Foursquare seems to be everyone I run into on a regular basis. All three of those social graphs are powerful in their own.
amazing buddies home life nights pass
My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.
anyone happened hard ideas passionate push stupid time work
Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.