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Jeff Glueck

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
184 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And then that mapping understanding of 160 plus countries winds up in being used in a lot of your favorite apps like Uber and Apple Maps and Snapchat and Twitter and Pinterest and Samsung phones and I could go on and on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And so it's very much a powerful location intelligence powerhouse now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And yet we're valued more like an enterprise software company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Yeah, that's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And we definitely help them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

So what Pilgrim is, is that based on nearly 12 billion check ins in four score consumer apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And by the way, for your users who are asking, we do more check ins today than we did two years ago or four years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

How many?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

It's about 7 million check-ins a day and we're approaching 12 billion cumulative check-ins.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

I'm talking about what we call explicit ground truth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

So people open their phone, open either Foursquare Swarm, which is our guide to remembering all the places you've gone and sort of life-logging and remembering things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Or was that killer ramen place in Tokyo that I stopped?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Or what was that incredible tapas place in Barcelona?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Or what's the name of the place where we had our second date in the village?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And so that's a log.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And every time someone opens and checks in, essentially they are mapping the interior of a business for us 7 million times a day, almost 12 billion times cumulatively.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Or they confirm a place to their...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

you know, when they're writing a review or in our four score city guide.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

And so that explicit ground truth is what makes Pilgrim so powerful, because it then enables us passively, to your point, to recognize now when a phone in your pocket or in your purse walks in and out of 105 million venues in almost every country in the world.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
779: Foursquare CEO on Transition From Consumer Social Network to B2B Enterprise Data Company

Again, passively, because we look at the 14 different Wi-Fi connection points on the seventh floor,