Minds Behind Maps

Ariel Seidman is one of the co-founders of Hivemapper, a company building a map through selling dashcams & paying contributing drivers with the aim of competing with Google Maps. Ariel has a long history of mapping, working on Map & Search at Yahoo in the mid 2000s.

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Timestamps

(00:00) - Introduction

(02:29) - Sponsor: Planet

(03:43) - Ariel describes himself

(05:59) - Steve Jobs influence

(07:30) - Leaving Yahoo

(11:32) - Importance of owning the collected data

(14:15) - Hivemapper

(25:53) - Incentivizing contributions

(30:42) - So, Why crypto?

(33:23) - Public distrust of crypto

(39:16) - Building trust with contributors

(46:40) - Regulations & Privacy

(51:14) - Turning images into maps

(01:06:04) - Customer base

(01:16:26) - Bike support?

(01:19:11) - Most interesting users

(01:22:31) - Future predictions

(01:26:10) - Collaborating with car manufacturers

(01:27:47) - Book & podcast

(01:31:51) - Changes in Journalism

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