Glueck: Foursquare profiles 150 million Americans via location data
Jeff Glueck · a16z Podcast | Data, Insight, and the Customer Experience · Jan 2, 2019 · at 10:14
Jeff Glueck, CEO of Foursquare, details the scale of Foursquare's real-world location tracking and consumer profiling network for ad targeting.
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“We profile hundred fifty million Americans based on the places they go, both through our own apps, but through a network of partners using our technology”
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