“Tweet Tweet Boom Boom” - NY Magazine 4/18
Great New York Magazine article that digs into the NYC Start-Up scene with an overview of all sorts of players, highlighting Foursquare. Thanks to my buddy Barry Parasram over at PMK-BNC for forwarding.
“Using New York as their labratory, Foursquare - and Meetup and Yipit and Venmo and Hot Potato and dozens of others - facilitates and documents urban interactions, usually in real time, often with an eye toward building communities of users. While consumerism is at the core of the business model for many of these start-ups, that’s only part of the point. The entrepreneurs behind them have a sense that the city belongs to the rising generation, not some Wall Street guy or old-media geezer or other antiquated gatekeeper. In a way that can at times, seem overly idealistic, even naive, they believe in a sort of golden rule of Internet behavior, one that chooses trust over suspicion, optimism over skepticism, hope over doubt. And for the time being, hope seems to be winning.”
http://nymag.com/news/media/65494/
