Naveen Selvadurai
American internet entrepreneur (born 1982)
Naveen Selvadurai (born January 27, 1982) is an American internet entrepreneur and co-founder of location-based social networking site Foursquare.com. Until recently, he was working at startup studio Expa which was founded by co-founder of Uber and StumbleUpon - Garrett Camp, as a partner.2
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Born Jan 27, 1982.1
About
He was featured in Inc Magazine's 30 under 30 list in the year 2010. He was also featured in Rediff.com's article - 4 NRIs among US's coolest young entrepreneurs.
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Companies
- Foursquare Labs, Inc.Founder10
Early life and education
- 1999 to 2003Worcester Polytechnic Institute computer science3
- Date not recordedKing's College London3
- Date not recordedTorrington High School3
He was born on the January 27, 1982 in Chennai, India, to Kuppuswamy Selvadurai and Latha Selvadurai. He was their first child and has a younger sister Chindhuri Selvadurai.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson, entrepreneur.5
- Date not recordedFounded Foursquare Labs, Inc.4
Selvadurai graduated in 4 years from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science in Worcester, MA. During his time at Worcester, he spent 5 months in his junior year on a study abroad programme at King's College London. He went on to work with Lucent, Sony, Nokia and Sun Microsystems before he started his mobile social-networking venture Foursquare, along with Dennis Crowley.
He has been on Fox Business Network, and CNN's special by Fareed Zakaria, "Getting American Back to #1," talking about how he became the person that he is today.
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Personal life
Naveen married Diana Marie Hardeman in 2017.
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Sources
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- 1WikidataNaveen Selvadurai on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaNaveen Selvadurai on Wikipedia
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- 10WikidataFoursquare Labs, Inc., Founder