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Team & Achievements
DePIN Hub's Founders have successfully launched DePIN projects before and possess important leadership skills and real-world business experience.
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Leadership
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Daniel Andrade - Co-Founder & CTO
- Daniel is a senior electronics engineer turned full-stack engineer, from designing hardware to software and blockchain.
- Currently holds the position of mentor to three DePIN focused accelerators, DePIN Surf, Outlier Ventures, and Future3, from Hashkey.
- Daniel hosts the DePIN Hub Podcast, where he interviews all the key players in the space, from founders, VCs, deployers, and more.
- Fun fact: The first helium hotspot in Europe was at Daniel's kitchen, as he built his own, before helium became popular around the world.
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Maxime Goossens - Co-Founder & CEO
- Maxime is a serial tech entrepreneur with a strong product background backed by years of experience in software engineering, data science and product management
- Deployed 150 Helium hotspots in Europe and productized the operations and commercial structures to enable mining DePIN at scale
- Reverse engineered the Helium source code and built a visual and collaborative blockchain explorer to help the Helium community make sense of complex tokenomics and turn it into actionable network planning driving the explosive growth of the Helium network to 1M nodes.
- Angel investor and advisor to multiple DePIN projects
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Michael Sothan - Head of Growth
- Michael is a born builder with an array of startups on his CV that range from the first night club digitization platform in China to automated air filter replacement systems to big corps in the US to an 'Airbnb for bags' for European tourists. Michael has a knack to find elegant solutions to complex problems.
- With 10 years of critical infrastructure-related field service experience, Michael knows first-hand the intricacies of how physical infra is rolled out and managed, and brings that know-how to Hotspotty.
- He is also a product-focused SaaS and enterprise-sales veteran and a polyglot, including fluency in Mandarin.
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Daniel Zabotti - Lead Engineer
- Daniel is a senior full-stack engineer and previously was the Technology Director at Brazil's largest exchange Mercado Bitcoin
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Hotspotty Journey
- Max and Daniel were some of the first deployers of Helium’s decentralized IoT network in Europe. They experienced first hand the need to simulate coverage, forecast rewards, and easily pay their network of hosts
- The team created some of the earliest DePIN tooling — Hotspotty, which helped kickstart Helium’s flywheel to achieve the fastest wireless network rollout in historyth
”Hotspotty played a critical role in scaling the Helium network to a million hotspots worldwide.” - Amir Haleem, CEO & Founder of Nova Labs
- Hotspotty became the global community’s most loved product
- 40% of Helium Network under management (~400 thounsand devices)
- Helium Noble Awards 2021 Favorite Community App
- 300,000+ users
- B2B integrations with hardware manufacturers
- $350K in recurring revenue with $0 spent on marketing
- Established very powerful industry partnerships to help growth of the entire space
- Mentor and advisor to many DePIN Projects
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DePIN Hub
The first MVP created of DePIN Hub was a project index, news aggregator, and the page that everyone should have opened in their browser to be on top of everything DePIN. The system automatically processes hundreds of news sources, discord notification, youtube videos, and much more. Everything that is relevant to DePIN we process, summarize, generate image and make it available to all our users. So far, we have processed around 3000 news articles, 1000 discord announcements, 420 newsletters, and much more.
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DePIN Hub Podcast
Since November 2023, the team has been publishing one episode every week interviewing all the key players of the DePIN and web3 ecosystem, from founders, investors, to deployers. Check the podcast clicking here.
