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ByNancy Miller

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Dennis Crowley, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Foursquare

In the spring of 2016,Foursquare亚马逊CEO杰夫胶ck went on CNBC to make a bold prediction: Chipotle comparable sales would fall by 29 percent in its first quarter. The network's anchor seemed skeptical. The fast-food chain was reacting to some health scares at the time, but no one was predicting nearly as steep a drop in revenue. "What is the technology here? What have you got that enables you to do this?" the anchor asked.

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