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Dennis Crowley 
At Foursquare's New York City officeBorn June 19, 1976 Nationality American Alma mater Syracuse University (B.A. 1998) New York University (M.P.S. 2004) Occupation internet entrepreneur Known for Co-founder of Dodgeball and Foursquare Website denniscrowley.com Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.
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Education
Crowley graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in 1994 and was featured in the front-cover story of Xaverian's seasonal magazine. He received a B.A. in 1998 from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a M.P.S. master's degree in 2004 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).[1]
Career
Crowley co-founded Dodgeball with fellow student Alex Rainert in 2003 while attending New York University.[2] Dodgeball was subsequently acquired by Google in 2005,[3] after which Crowley developed a second version of the original Dodgeball service called Foursquare in 2009. Foursquare, offering location-based social networking services via mobile devices, had over 6 million users worldwide as of January 2011,[4] and 10 million users as of June 2011.[5]
Awards
Crowley was named one of Fortune Magazine's "40 under 40" Business's hottest rising stars in 2010.[6] The online magazine AskMen.com ranked Dennis Crowley number 19 of the "Top 49 Most Influential Men 2010."[7] In 2005, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[8]
References
- ^ New York University – Alumni Profile: Dennis Crowley (TSOA '04)
- ^ Adams, Tim (25 April 2010). "Will Foursquare be the new Twitter?". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/25/twitter-foursquare-social-networking-gowalla.
- ^ Polytechnic University paper
- ^ "So we grew 3400% last year…". January 28, 2011. http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/01/24/2010infographic/.
- ^ Sarah Lacy. "Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation". TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/24/foursquare-closes-50m-at-a-600m-valuation/. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ 40 under 40 – 29. Dennis Crowley – FORTUNE
- ^ "Dennis Crowley Top49 Men". askmen.com. October 31, 2010. http://www.AskMen.com/specials/2010_top_49/19-dennis-crowley.html.
- ^ "2005 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2005. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2005. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
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