Episode 13: Location Data Marketplace on Blockchain with Justin Mann (Co-Founder Fysical)
Fysical is a location data marketplace which connects location suppliers i.e you and me to location buyers which could be marketing agencies, hedge funds, insurance companies amongst others.
Justin Mann co-founded Fysical labs, from which Fysical has been spun out, in Boston in 2014. Fysical was accepted into the 500 Startups accelerator in the summer of 2016. Sensing a big opportunity in Asia, Justin and his team moved to Singapore from Silicon Valley to build out Fysical.
Tune in to hear about:
- Justin’s background and how Fysical came about
- Why Fysical decided to relocate from Silicon Valley to Singapore
- What is location data?
- The problems with location data and location data marketplaces
- What are the use cases presently and in the future — hedge funds, marketing firms, commercial real estate firms, smart cities, disaster recovery, health insurance companies
- Who analyses the location data?
- Role of the FYS token in the ecosystem
- Fysical is live on the Ethereum main net — what that experience has been like
- How users can get paid from their location data
- Medium, Telegram and Twitter
Our guest for this episode is Justin Mann, the Co-Founder and COO of Fysical based in Singapore. After graduating, he worked with First Republic Bank where he was responsible for analyzing investment portfolios after which he founded Fysical Labs. Fysical Labs helps smart cities, marketers, financial services companies and researchers make better decisions with the help of location data.
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