| Dennis Crowley | |
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At Foursquare's New York City office |
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| Born | June 19, 1976 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University (B.A. 1998) New York University (M.P.S. 2004) |
| Occupation | internet entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-founder of Dodgeball and Foursquare |
| Website | |
| denniscrowley.com | |
Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.
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Crowley graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in 1994 and was featured in the front-cover story of Xaverian's seasonal magazine. 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).[1]
Crowley co-founded Dodgeball with fellow student Alex Rainert in 2003 while attending New York University.[2] Dodgeball was subsequently acquired by Google in 2005,[3] after which Crowley along with Naveen Selvadurai developed a second version of the original Dodgeball service called Foursquare in 2009. Foursquare, offering location-based social networking services via mobile devices, had over 6 million users worldwide as of January 2011,[4] and 10 million users as of June 2011.[5]
Crowley was named one of Fortune Magazine's "40 under 40" Business's hottest rising stars in 2010.[6] The online magazine AskMen.com ranked Dennis Crowley number 19 of the "Top 49 Most Influential Men 2010."[7] In 2005, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[8]