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S9:E1 - How do you go from hackathons to building a hurricane relief business (Nick Feuer)

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Nick Feuer, one of the creators of Project OWL, talks about how he and his team developed their deployable mesh network for bringing connectivity to survivors of natural disasters so that they can get the help they need from first responders.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Code to be podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey

0:08.8

in hopes of helping you on yours.

0:11.0

I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about going from hackathons to building a business

0:16.3

with Nick Foyer, one of the creators of Project Owl, a winner of Call for Code.

0:21.7

People that I knew who had families in Puerto Rico did not know if their grandmother was okay

0:29.2

and didn't find out until a month and a half later.

0:32.1

Call for Code is a virtual hackathon where developers find ways to reduce the impact of natural disasters through technology.

0:39.7

Project Owl is a deployable mesh network. Don't worry, we'll tell you what that is, that brings

0:44.3

connectivity to survivors of natural disasters. And Nick, along with his co-founder, Brian, were one

0:49.9

of the 100,000 developers who competed. Nick tells us about how he went from hackathon hobbyist to building a real-world business

0:58.2

that helps people after this.

1:06.6

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1:08.5

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1:09.5

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1:13.0

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1:15.8

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1:16.5

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1:20.1

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1:23.8

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1:25.1

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1:29.4

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1:34.5

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