8. Growing Helium's Usage (w/ Mark Phillips)

The Hotspot - Helium Network & Blockchain Podcast

Mark Phillips is Helium's Vice President of Business Development and one of the company's earliest employees.

Mark goes into great detail about the company's process for bringing new users and device manufacturers onto the network, outlines the company's strategy and helps me understand Helium's competitors and the challenges the network faces. He also shares some pretty awesome growth predictions for this year and beyond.
0:00:35 - Introductions
0:01:18 - Philly Blockchain Meetup
0:04:54 - Hotspot Names
0:06:41 - Mark's Helium Journey
0:11:22 - The Network Exists!
0:15:41 - Amazon SIdewalk & Class C Devices
0:24:11 - Helium Use Cases
0:30:17 - Helium's Business Dev Team
0:33:04 - The Senet, TTN, MachineQ Exodus
0:40:18 - Helium Coverage Mapping
0:43:45 - Redundancy & SLAs
0:50:49 - Adding 100,000s Of Devices
0:54:45 - Helium's True Competitor
0:57:37 - Helium's Unmatched Community
1:01:16 - Open Sourcing Helium Hotspot Design
1:02:16 - Municipalities Using Helium
1:05:22 - Threats To Helium
1:08:37 - Manufacturing Delays
1:09:25 - 2021 Growth Prediction
1:10:11 - Final Thoughts
1:11:41 - Mark Jogs My Memory

More episodes of The Hotspot are available on your favorite podcast app: https://plinkhq.com/i/1524379293

Resources:

• Learn more about Helium: https://www.helium.com/
• Follow me: https://twitter.com/rawrmaan
• Follow Mark: https://twitter.com/pharkmillups
• Follow Helium: https://twitter.com/helium
• Intro song: Lakey Inspired - Arcade