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: The founders quickly grew frustrated with Google’s refusal to allocate engineering resources to the platform.

By April 2007, Crowley and Rainert reached a breaking point and resigned from Google. Crowley famously shared a photo on Flickr of the duo giving a "thumbs down" in front of the Google office, describing the experience as "incredibly frustrating" and lamenting that they were forced to watch other startups innovate in the mobile-social space while their own product withered. Dennis Crowley's Story Behind Creating Foursquare google buys dodgeball

: Despite Google’s global reach, Dodgeball remained restricted to only 22 U.S. cities for years. : The founders quickly grew frustrated with Google’s