Rom Lacritz: Nobody has successfully figured out location-based social data
Rom Lakritz · He Said No Once and They Tripled the Offer · Aug 9, 2024 · at 19:14
Rom Lacritz, founder and CEO of Anchor, discusses the collapse of the location-based services sector and why his first startup decided to shut down.
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“Nobody really uses check-ins and Foursquare and events on Facebook. It's not really a thing. Nobody really connected between the real world and the social world in the location-based data cause theoretically you have so much data who goes where and what type of people and what they're doing and what hours it's full or not. And nobody, nobody really figured it out and use it.”
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