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▶ 0:19 unnamed speaker This conversation includes CEO and co-founder of Mixpanel, Suhail Doshi, Gil Elbaz, the founder and CEO of Factual, CEO of Foursquare, Jeff Gluck,
▶ 3:29 Jeff Glueck For Foursquare, we have a 125,000 companies using our platform to build better mobile experiences.
▶ 8:51 Jeff Glueck It can mean a lot of things, and I think at Foursquare, we really believe that consumer transparency and opt-in is a big piece of it.
▶ 9:35 Jeff Glueck Everyone gets, at Foursquare City Guide, an entirely different set of recommendations based on the kinds of places you go to, and it used to be checking in, now we just passively are able to understand when phones go in and out of a…
▶ 13:43 Jeff Glueck Remember to use it while you're at Walgreens, you know, or it's enabling, like, we enable for hotels, a bunch of hotels have gotten rid of their concierges, and they're just using the Foursquare recommendation engine in the hotels of the…

▶ 20:17 Kyle Russell And, you know, on Foursquare, they were really early on with gamification with the idea of mayors. 2 times in the scene
▶ 26:39 Ryan Hoover Regarding Foursquare's prediction of Chipotle sales. 2 times in the scene

▶ 18:52 Jeff Jordan Um, so, you know, Chicago had Groupon, and, you know, uh, Foursquare had, it was in New York, and they can only hire so many engineers, particularly engineers, but also the senior executives who've done digital marketing, and done…

▶ 5:48 David Pierce Yeah, there's an interesting sort of chicken and egg problem inherent there, where, because that, like, those two things sort of create a virtuous cycle, right, where it's, and I remember Foursquare tried to do this forever ago, where they…

▶ 7:02 Marc Andreessen Um, you know, or of course I'm gonna use Foursquare to be able to, like, navigate through as I go around a city.

▶ 9:22 Benedict Evans Yeah, it's a kind of, it's a question, as you say, about context, that how, what does it mean when you know where the device has gone, and that not that it's to the nearest hundred yards, but it's to the nearest five yards, and, you know,… 3 times in the scene
▶ 13:29 Steve Cheney A lot of companies, um, whether it was, you know, Moves or Foursquare battled against with data science to try to keep your battery from dying as they predicted where you were, but we're getting much better now, and, and, and I think the…

▶ 4:47 Benedict Evans And that means that I can go and search for a bar, and I will not just get results from Apple Maps, I will, and, um, and the Yelp integration that Apple has done, I will also get search results from Foursquare if I put Foursquare on my…

▶ 4:25 Benedict Evans It's a whole bunch of sort of small, incremental, useful, delightful things, um, and that's kind of different, I think that's what everyone's experience has been of it, and that kind of comes over a week or two, so it might be, you know,…

▶ 0:41 Benedict Evans Um, I think Fred Wilson called this a constellation of apps, and so you have Facebook pulling stuff out of Facebook, you have Foursquare splitting its app in two, you have lots of other people trying to do single purpose apps, and the…

▶ 7:52 Frank Chen Foursquare uses machine learning techniques to figure out if you're near a venue, like the fabulous Encore, and then once it figures out you're near a venue, it will pick a set of photos and recommendations to show you.

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