Foursquare

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 24, 2020 by Tristan Walker · across every show →

Everything said about Foursquare, oldest first

Nov 24, 2020 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Walker: Foursquare grew from 0 to over 1M merchants during his tenure
“When I started at the company, we had zero merchants, zero brands, all that on the platform. By the time I ended up leaving Foursquare, even a couple years later, we had over a million merchants on the platform. By the time I left, we were a 150 people. I star…”
Tristan Walker Nov 24, 2020 ▶ 8:57 Learn from every "no" (with Walker & Company's Tristan Walker)
Mar 20, 2026
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Webb: Early social apps missed that their real breakthrough was location services
“If you go back in time to the original crop of location-based network social media apps, so that would have been Foursquare, Gowalla, Scavenger, everybody got the trend wrong. The trend was not cool badges and people checking in, like, That, that wasn't the tr…”
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