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Foursquare Co-Founder Checking Out of Company

Navveen Selvadurai, one of the co-founders of the location check-in service Foursquare, has announced that he is bidding adieu to the three-year old company.

March 5, 2012

Navveen Selvadurai, one of the co-founders of the location check-in service Foursquare, has announced that he is bidding adieu to the three-year old company.

In a Sunday blog post, Selvadurai said that March will be his last month at Foursquare, though he will remain on the board and continue to advise the company.

"After three years, I feel I've done all I can do and I'm moving on," Selvadurai explained, adding that he and founding partner Dennis Crowley have been discussing the timing of the transition for some time.

"I'm not sure about my exact next steps, but I'll probably get back to what I love most — being an entrepreneur, learning and building new things," he wrote.

Selvadurai and Crowley first launched their unassuming location-based app at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music-and-hipster festival in spring 2009. Since then, Foursquare has grown to a user base of over 15 million people, with millions of check-ins every day, according to statistics on the Foursquare website. The service is often credited with taking location services—and the now ubiquitous check-in —mainstream.

"Three years ago, we took an idea and threw it into the world," he wrote. "I'm going to miss the crazy intensity that is foursquare, but am excited to see where it all goes from here."

PCMag visited Foursquare's headquarters last year to chat with Selvadurai, who .

"We've had a good idea of why you wanted to check in before we even started," he said during the interview. "We wanted to keep track of interesting things to do in our city. We wanted to share that with our friends. We wanted to get to know our city better."

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