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How a moment of anxiety changed the entire course of Foursquare's trajectory.

Jan 31, 2021

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In December 2013, Foursquare founder and CEO Dennis Crowley was absorbed in reading Nick Bilton's new book Hatching Twitter. Over the weekend, he had just gotten to the section when the board decides to suddenly replace Ev Williams as the CEO of Twitter.

And then Crowley saw a meeting pop up on his calendar: "Meeting with Foursquare…

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