Dennis Crowley is a technology entrepreneur working at the intersection of the real world & digital world. His work focuses on creating things that make everyday life feel a little more fun and playful.Dennis is Co-Founder & CEO at Hopscotch Labs, working towards building a "Marauder's Map for AirPods." He is also the Co-Founder/Co-Chair at Foursquare, one of the world's leading location technology platforms. Previously, he founded Dodgeball, one of the first location-based mobile social services (acquired by Google in 2005) and co-created PacManhattan, one of the earliest "big urban games" (2004).He is also the Co-Founder/Co-Chair at Street FC ("building the biggest football club on the planet") and the Founder/Chairman of Kingston Stockade FC, a semi-professional soccer team out of Hudson Valley, NY that competes in the 4th division of the US Soccer Pyramid.He has been named one of Fortune's "40 Under 40" (2010, 2011), a member of Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" (2011, 2012), won the "Fast Money" bonus round on the TV game show Family Feud (2009), and was worth $400 on Jeopardy (2020). He was previously an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).Dennis holds a Master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and a Bachelor's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. He splits his time between New York City and the Hudson Valley with his wife Chelsa and their three children, Via, Mars, and Samus.
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Co-Founder And CeoHopscotch LabsNew York, Ny, Us
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Co-Founder / CeoHopscotch Labs Aug 2024 - PresentHopscotch Labs is building things that exist at the intersection of "recently possible" and "newly ubiquitous". Our first project is a "Marauders Map for AirPods" called BeeBot. (AI = recently possible, AirPods = newly ubiquitious). It's in private beta now (maybe 150 people testing it?) and you can think of it as a mashup of OG Twitter ("what's happening"), OG Foursquare ("who's where doing what"), Waze (but for walking thru cities), with some AI fairy dust glueing it all together. It's meant to be light and fun and to create joy and serendipity. We're chasing that OG Dodgeball vibe of "software for the streets". You'll like it!You can sign up for the waitlist at: https://forms.gle/Pcv16yzA5X4JHAjM7
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Co-Founder / Co-ChairFoursquare Jan 2009 - PresentNew York, Ny, UsFoursquare is a location technology company dedicated to improving how people move through the real world. Back in 2009, Foursquare made the "check-in" mainstream. And today, those 13+ billion check-ins are the foundation of our powerful, proprietary Pilgrim technology that helps make sense of where phones go for the more than 150,000 partners who have registered to use our developer tools, including Uber, Tencent, Apple, Samsung, and Twitter. Foursquare powers location experiences for more than 1 billion people around the world.(Held CEO position from January 2009 -> January 2016. I also ran our internal R&D group known as Foursquare Labs from January 2016 -> June 2021. These days, while not in a full-time role, I remain as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors) -
Co-Founder / Co-ChairStreet Fc Sep 2018 - PresentNew York, UsStreet FC is building the biggest soccer club in the world. Imagine 1M+ people all playing for the same club, all wearing the same crest, all around the world. Think: Soul Cycle for pickup soccer. We create technology and leverage data to host flashmob pickup soccer games in cities across the country. Games are fast (4 mins) and always on hard surfaces -- which means we play anywhere and everywhere. -
Founding Member / Board MemberThe League For Clubs Jul 2024 - PresentPlaying a role in helping to build a new Division 4 soccer league in the USA. -
Founder / ChairmanKingston Stockade Football Club (Stockade Fc) Aug 2015 - PresentHurley, Ny, UsKingston Stockade Football Club is a semi-pro soccer team based in Kingston, NY that represents the Hudson Valley in The League for Clubs (4th Division, US Soccer Pyramid). The team was started from scratch in the fall of 2015 and played its inaugural season in May 2016 at Dietz Stadium in Kingston. NY.http://stockadefc.com -
Co-FounderLivingcities.Xyz Jun 2021 - Sep 2023New York, UsWe were attempting to use computer vision to turn real world places into 3D playable game spaces, but ended up winding down the company in 2023. -
Board MemberNational Premier Soccer League Dec 2017 - Dec 2021The National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) is a member-driven national men’s soccer league committed to the support of its teams on and off the field and growing the sport nationally. The NPSL operates with nearly 100 teams across the country and remains one of the fastest-growing soccer leagues in the America. (Stockade FC plays in the North Atlantic Conference of the NPSL) -
Making GamesArea/Code Jun 2007 - Feb 2008New York, Ny, UsTake the ITP @ NYU class "Big Games" (taught by Frank Lantz) and cross it with the mad-scientist-ness of Kevin Slavin and you get area/code. We made computer games that leaked out into the real world. In my short stint here, I got to work on Conqwest, Sharkrunners, Parking Wars, and a wee bit of Drop7. This gig laid taught me the basics of "designing playfulness" which were then spun into early Foursquare prototypes. -
Product Manager ("Dodgeball" Mobile Service)Google May 2005 - May 2007Mountain View, Ca, UsDodgeball was my grad school thesis project (ITP/NYU) which was acquired by Google in May 2005. While the Dodgeball service was never able to find a way to thrive at Google, our work there helped shape a lot of Google's early thinking about the intersection of mobile + social + location technology. When you *squint real hard* at the "social" parts of Google Maps, sometimes you can see little pieces of Dodgeball's DNA :) -
FounderDodgeball Jan 2004 - May 2007Location based social software for mobile devices. Dodgeball was acquired by Google in May 2005. See: http://www.cnet.com/news/dodgeball-a-eulogy/https://medium.com/rick-webb/from-the-archives-soliloquy-for-dodgeball-ed8121dee285 -
Co-CreatorConqwest Jun 2004 - Nov 2004ConQwest was a "Big Game" played in 5 cities across the US. Five teams consisting of 20 high school students each raced around with cameraphones, shooting photos of semacodes (2D barcodes) to complete a city-wide treasure hunt. The game was sponsored by Qwest Wireless.See: http://denniscrowley.com/conqwest/ -
Co-Creator / Pac-ManPacmanhattan Apr 2004 - May 2004One of the most well-received examples of a "Big Game", PacManhttan turned downtown Manhattan into a live action game of Pac Man. This was a project out of the Big Games class at ITP/NYU, Spring 2004.See: http://www.pacmanhattan.com -
Product Development (Mobile)Mtv May 2003 - Sep 2003New York, Ny, UsI worked on many early early early stage mobile products, including "Txt2TRL" (yes, you could request songs on TRL via text messaging!) and "Snoop Dogg's Rock Paper Shizzle" (!!) -
Snowboard InstructorAttitash Bear Peak Ski And Summer Resort Nov 2001 - May 2002Teaching little kids how to be rad. Maybe the best job I've ever had. -
Product DevelopmentVindigo Jun 2000 - Jun 2001New York, Ny, Us -
Research AnalystJupiter Communicatios / Jupiter Research Jun 1998 - Jun 2000UsAh, I miss you, dot-com days.
Dennis Crowley Education Details
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New York UniversityInteractive Telecommunications Program (Itp) -
Syracuse UniversityNewhouse School Of Public Communications
Frequently Asked Questions about Dennis Crowley
What company does Dennis Crowley work for?
Dennis Crowley works for Hopscotch Labs
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Dennis Crowley's current role is Co-Founder and CEO.
What schools did Dennis Crowley attend?
Dennis Crowley attended New York University, Syracuse University.
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