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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 we've seen them thousands of times before.

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

This GPS reading, this gender, this time of day, this Bluetooth beacon that's open nearby.

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

All of these go into a machine learning algorithm that gets better and better every day and enables us to recognize with incredible accuracy when people stop, not just walk by, but stop at these 105 million places of interest.

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

And that is a powerful thing.

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

So you asked about Capital One.

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

So we launched the Pilgrim SDK, which is basically a white label way for our 100,000 developers using various tools to add in background context awareness into their mobile experience to make things better for their users.

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

And so what Capital One does is using the Pilgrim technology baked in, it asks people, do you want to opt in to be informed when you can earn triple Capital One rewards points or double Capital One rewards points at the business you're at right now?

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

And people opt in overwhelmingly.

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

Sounds great.

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

Who doesn't want more rewards points?

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

And so a woman might stop a couple minutes at Sephora, be walking around.

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

The technology says, oh, this is not just walking by.

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

You're actually inside and walking around.

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

You might get a ping on your iPhone or your Android.

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

A push notification.

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

And it says, at Sephora, don't forget triple rewards points this week on beauty purchases.

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

And, you know, obviously they are encouraging people to use their phone.

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

mobile wallet where it's accepted and particularly where there's a relevant offer.

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

Another company using the Pilgrim SDK similarly is one called TouchTunes.

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

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