Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley stepping down from full-time role

Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, is stepping down from his full-time role with the company | Getty

Foursquare founder and former CEO Dennis Crowley is stepping down from his full-time role at the company, he wrote in a Medium post on Monday. He’ll remain on the board of directors.

“What started around my kitchen table in the East Village back in early 2009 has grown to nearly 400 people working around the world in 2021,” Crowley wrote. “What started as a quest to ‘build a Marauders Map’ and to ‘turn the real world into a game’ and ‘build a hipster version of Clippy’ has turned into one of the world’s leading location technology platforms, powering location services for thousands of apps and top brands around the world.”

Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai launched Foursquare in 2009 as a smartphone app that let people use their...

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