“it was an app that sat on top of Foursquare and Gowalla”
Foursquare
By Foursquare
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“Tristan Walker, who wanted to get hired at Foursquare.”
“around the city on for square and koala back in the day”
“prior to that he was head of product at Foursquare”
“I actually built the startup on foursquares API”
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