The Gowalla Story: Recent Episodes
Josh Williams and Dan Benjamin
This is The Gowalla Story, an exploration of the rise, fall, reinvention, and reimagining of a startup, hosted by its creator, Josh Williams and Dan Benjamin.
Josh and Dan talk about the challenges of fundraising, term sheets, board seats, moving a startup, why location matters for a startup, Disney, and the conseqences of decisions made.
In our inaugural episode, Josh and Dan explore the origins of Gowalla, the once-popular location-based social network, soon to be reimagined as an immersive augmented reality game for a new era. They also discuss social games, digital collections, hype-filled SXSW product launches, and the early Austin consumer tech scene.