Everything Gary Little said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
The location data industry is shifting from mobile IDs to anonymized aggregates
“And so I think from our perspective, the biggest shift and most important shift and one that we're the most happy about is we're moving from this very personalized ID, so mobile identifiers and so forth to a more anonymized world where people are looking at th…”
Only Foursquare and Google use human confirmation for location data
“What we think is unique other than basically Google in the world, which is human confirmation.”
Foursquare's platform strategy resembles Amazon building AWS
“One analogy I like to use for the team internally is what we've been up to over the last three years is really similar in some sense to Amazon building AWS many moons ago. Right? Realizing they had built up a bunch of infrastructure. Hey, a bunch of customers …”
Enterprise customers churn from raw data because they cannot derive value
“Right now, we have so many customers that will buy data from us over very long periods of time, and often when they churn now, it's because they can't get to value. They can't build whatever they were trying to build, and a lot of that is because they don't ha…”
Most enterprise customers fail when trying to build native location attribution
“A lot of our customers want to build some of those capabilities natively, and so and many have tried, and most have failed, because it's a very, very hard technical problem.”
Enterprise clients rarely use their own internal location data due to complexity
“They're not even using, in most cases when we talk to our customers, they're not using data that they've created inside their own walls, because it's just too complicated.”
Standard SQL queries are virtually impossible for complex location data analysis
“Trying to put together SQL queries in such a manner to understand those interrelationships is virtually impossible, and honestly was part of the reason that you don't see a lot of the value derived when you buy the data, because you have to spend so much time,…”
AI shifts spatial data usage from data science to general business teams
“Using these techniques just completely changes the aperture of who our customer is, right? Customer on the planet with a physical location, which is most businesses. Inside the business, it's now not the data science department. It's literally the finance depa…”
Cheaper AI inference models will unlock real-time spatial data queries
“I think the most interesting thing for us really is when the cost of inference models becomes highly efficient, that's where like, for us, that's probably the most valuable crossing over of a new platform, because most of our questions are real time in nature …”
Foursquare tracks 200 million points of interest across 190 countries
“We operate in a 190 countries globally, You know, two hundred million global POI, or places of interest”
Foursquare builds its products on places, users, and user movement
“Everything that we do is based on sort of three data primitive layers, right? Places in the world, users, and movement of those users in relation to place.”
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