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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Internet Entrepreneur

Name
  
Dennis Crowley


Website
  
denniscrowley.com

Occupation
  
internet entrepreneur

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Born
  
June 19, 1976 (age 47) (
1976-06-19
)
Medway, Massachusetts, U.S.

Alma mater
  
Xaverian Brothers High School Syracuse University (B.A. 1998) New York University (M.P.S. 2004)

Known for
  
Co-founder of Dodgeball and Foursquare

Education
  
Tisch School of the Arts

Profiles


Organizations founded
  
Foursquare Labs, Inc.

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Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.

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Education

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Crowley was born in Medway, Massachusetts to Mary Moraski Crowley and Dennis P Crowley. He graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in 1994. He received a B.A. in 1998 from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a M.P.S. master's degree in 2004 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

Career

After graduating from Syracuse, Crowley worked as a researcher for Jupiter Communications. In 2000, he joined mobile app provider Vindigo as a product developer.

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In 2003, Crowley co-founded Dodgeball with fellow student Alex Rainert while attending New York University. Dodgeball was acquired by Google in 2005.

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After Google abandoned the Dodgeball project in 2007, Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai co-founded Foursquare in 2009.

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Foursquare, known for its location intelligence offerings for both enterprises and consumers, is used by more than 50 million people every month.

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In January 2016, after 7 years as CEO, Crowley handed the role of CEO to Jeff Glueck and became Executive Chairman of the company.

Awards

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Crowley has been named one of Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40" (2010, 2011), was featured on Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" list (2011, 2012), and was named to the MIT Technology Review "TR35" as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35 (2005).

Personal life

Crowley married Chelsa Lynn Skees at Buttermilk Falls Inn in Milton, N.Y. Sarah Simmons, a Universal Life Church minister, officiated.

Crowley is also the Founder and Chairman of Kingston Stockade FC, a semi-professional soccer team in the Hudson Valley region of the state of New York that competes in the 4th division of the U.S. Soccer Pyramid.

In 2014 Crowley admitted to producing a fraudulent Boston Marathon bib for his wife, Chelsa Crowley, to use. He apologized for his actions. In a statement, Crowley admitted what he had done had "overshadowed the event for those who ran and those who ran to honor others".

Appearances

Crowley was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.

References

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