Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

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Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

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I'm Alan Thomas, and today I'm joined by Henry Picala, co-founder and CEO of Streamer.

Hey, how you know?

Thanks, Ellen, for having me. Oh, no problem. Let's just

jump on in. Tell us about Streamer and what do you guys do? Sure. So, Streamer aims to decentralize

real-time data, basically. That means building infrastructure and tools to support that and also building a marketplace

where producers of data and consumers of data can meet and transact, basically. And actually,

the first version of the streamer marketplace was launched last week at the consensus conference in New

York. So the whole team is super happy about reaching that milestone. But of course, it

only marks the start of things to come in the future.

And what led to the beginning of the streamer? What is it in your background that kind of led you to this?

Yeah, it's a pretty long journey and a fun one, actually. So personally, I have a background in software engineering,

in which I hold a master's degree as well. And I've been working with real-time data for the past 10 years or so.

I somehow found my way to the field of algorithmic trading, which is a very, very technology-intensive and data-intensive field.

And I used to do tech in there for several years.

And maybe there I realized that real-time data actually has value to a large extent to the fact

that it's fresh.

So it can actually be useful in an automation pattern.

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