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Jeff Glueck

Founder & CEO, Salvo Health · 2 appearances on the record.

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executivefounder@JeffGlueck ↗salvohealth.com ↗

Jeff Glueck served as CEO of Foursquare from 2016 to 2019, transitioning the consumer app into an enterprise location-intelligence platform. He previously co-founded Site59, served as CMO of Travelocity, was CEO of Skyfire Labs, and later founded Salvo Health.

14statements → 14claims → 7claims resolved → 86%fully supported → 4.14/5average certainty → 1.79/5average debate potential →

6 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 6 not checkable as stated how the 14 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

14 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 14 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 6 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Jeff argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Uber dropped Google Maps for Foursquare to power venue search
“If you use Uber and you say, like, I, you know, please pick me up at the, you know, Regency Cinema in Tribeca and take me to the Starbucks on 27th street, rather than typing addresses, That's all powered by Foursquare's global data set and they moved off Googl…”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 4:35 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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none yet certainty 2
none yet certainty 3
90% certainty 4
100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: speaking style how? →

249 words/min while actually speaking · 23.8 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Jeff Glueck: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 6,346 words across 2 episodes of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Jeff Glueck said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Uber dropped Google Maps for Foursquare to power venue search
“If you use Uber and you say, like, I, you know, please pick me up at the, you know, Regency Cinema in Tribeca and take me to the Starbucks on 27th street, rather than typing addresses, That's all powered by Foursquare's global data set and they moved off Googl…”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 4:35 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Foursquare data showed women's foot traffic to Trump properties dropped 29%
“During the peak of the campaign, Women, women's foot traffic in blue states to Trump branded properties was down 29% year over year.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 20:42 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Glueck: Bernie Sanders' campaign used Foursquare data to target Michigan voters
“The Sanders campaign used the data in Michigan, which was the primary that they won, to sort of figure out likely voters, and so we know who goes to colleges. We know, you know, which phones go to yoga studios and buy Subarus, you know, and so, like, we were a…”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 21:35 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Apple used Foursquare data to improve international maps after botched rollout
“Apple had a few problems with their map rollout, as you may have heard. And so you know, they came to us to try to improve the map data set around the world outside the U.S.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 5:03 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Foursquare Predicted Chipotle's Q1 Sales Drop Within 0.3% Using Location Data
“We went on CNBC a couple weeks before Chipotle's Q-one earnings, and I said in two weeks they're gonna report their earnings, and you're gonna see same store sales down 30% in the United States post the E. Coli scale. And they were like, why should we trust yo…”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 9:07 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Glueck: Foursquare's daily user check-ins hit an all-time high in 2017
“We do more check-ins each day than ever in the history of the company”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 1:31 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Foursquare location technology powers Apple Maps, Uber, Bing, and 100,000 others
“We power a lot of the location inside Bing. We power a lot of Apple Maps around the world. If you search in Uber or Tencent, Pinterest, and Snapchat, Samsung, Twitter, Garmin, these are among the 100,000 companies that now are using this technology set.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 2:33 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foursquare passively tracks user phone movements across 105 million businesses
“We understand when phones move in and out of a hundred and five million businesses passively.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 7:08 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Partly supported
Glueck: Foursquare outpredicted Wall Street on iPhone 6s launch sales
“When we predicted Apple the first weekend of sales for the iPhone six S, and at the time Wall Street consensus was you know, around 11 to twelve million units the first weekend, and we said it would be 13 to 14, and they came out over 13.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 17:10 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Glueck: Foursquare reaches 50M monthly users across web and apps
“We have about fifty million people who use the Foursquare and CitiGuide and the Swarm, or the Foursquare Swarm location-based game around the world each month across websites and our apps.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 1:13 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Glueck: Foursquare can map 100 million places worldwide for venue targeting
“We can help you map out a hundred million places in the world, and for us it's a 32nd problem to do what you just said and show when you're inside those businesses the right ad or the right, you know, geo filter for this restaurant, this small restaurant in LA…”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 3:31 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foursquare processes one billion daily API calls to power Twitter location
“Twitter runs on our hosted platform, which does about a billion API calls a day, and if anyone in the world wants to tag a tweet with the location where they are standing, that uses all of our machine learning to understand where the phone is and tag the tweet…”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 3:52 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Foursquare maps venues within a 95% confidence interval using check-in data
“Over time you build a data set over billions of check-ins, you know the shape of every place, and you know the 95% confidence interval in terms of lat-long where someone is.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 6:08 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Foursquare Predicted Black Friday Retail Drop Within 0.2% Using Store Traffic Data
“We predicted that retail shopping Black Friday weekend would be down three and a half percent watching store traffic in the six weeks leading up to Black Friday last year. NRF came out after the weekend said it was down 3.7%.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 10:04 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Panel: Alternative Data in Financial Services (FirstMark's Data Driven) Mar 24, 2017 12m
Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven) Mar 24, 2017 18m
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