Williams hasn?t announced his next moves (or his departure, for that matter), but sources said he plans to stay in San Francisco and work on starting a new company.
Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Incidentally, Tim Van Damme, another former Gowalla employee who joined Instagram before Facebook acquired the photo-sharing service, is also leaving the company. The departures are not related, according to sources.
Launched in 2007, Gowalla was one of the biggest players in the mobile location check-in space back in 2009 through 2012, along with Loopt and others. Foursquare was Gowalla?s largest competitor, and remains independently financed to date (though the company?s plans have changed from its gamification roots, as it is now about location discovery rather than check-ins).
After joining Facebook in 2012, Williams became Product Manager for Facebook Pages, Locations and Events, where he most recently revamped the Pages product with a focus on user ratings and reviews, an apparent affront to a comparable competitor like Yelp.
After a year and a half at the social giant, Williams? last day is on Friday.
Source: http://allthingsd.com/20130715/gowalla-co-founder-josh-williams-to-depart-facebook/
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