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Jeff Glueck

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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

But, you know, we're not investors.

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

We're technologists.

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

And that's that's where we like to play.

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

You know, I just think we have a mission, and that is we're a location intelligence company, and we want to bring location intelligence to explorers and makers and leaders.

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

And that's kind of what we wake up excited to do.

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

If we wanted to work at a hedge fund in Connecticut, we would go work at a hedge fund in Connecticut.

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

We're really proud of building these tools that all these companies can use.

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

It's kind of what we're about.

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

Our developerβ€”I just met with a developer for a coffee the other dayβ€”

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

And I was saying, well, why do you love your job?

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

And she said, well, if I get this stuff right, she was a data scientist, my algorithms are going to be in, you know, almost every major app other than Google and Facebook in the world and on almost every phone, and it's going to make these phones better.

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

And that's exciting to me.

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

You know, it was a transition culturally because we started out, of course, thinking of ourselves as this consumer company, and we still have these wonderful consumer apps.

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

But the developers got excited when Twitter announced that you could tag a tweet using our technology.

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

We're in Pinterest.

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

Now Uber's database of pickup and drop-off places is us.

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

And Snapchat uses us for some features, not all, but the geo filters and other features that are coming.

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

And so all of these apps that people are using every day, they're made better by Foursquare.

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

And we're proud of that.

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

And that's kind of what we want to do.