What podcasts say about Carter Fowler
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What Carter Fowler has said on podcasts
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Totem Compass contains a nine-axis inertial measurement unit.
“It has a nine axis IMU in it.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 2:39
Totem Compass points users toward selected friends at events.
“It has a nine axis IMU in it. So the second you pick it up, it automatically, or as I like to say, automatically goes into compass mode, starts pointing you in the direction of your family, friends, wherever you need to find at the event.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 2:39
Totem supports offline SOS communication and plans offline texting.
“It's an offline communicator. So it can also communicate like SOS status. If you're in some state of distress, we have offline texting coming out through our offline mobile app as well soon.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 2:51
Totem Compass provides bearing and relative distance to other users.
“it tells you the exact position like bearing and then also relative distance”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 3:40
- on Conventional connectivity networks at major gatheringsNegativeOct 12, 2026· This Week in Startups
Conventional connectivity networks fail at major gatherings.
“every major gathering is basically a failure condition for conventional connectivity networks”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 5:01
Unity Mesh Network maintains connections in crowded environments.
“We built an autonomous mesh network called the Unity Mesh Network that allows you to Stay connected with all of your people, no matter what.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 5:07
Totem’s mesh network operates completely offline.
“this mesh network works completely offline”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 6:03
Unity Mesh autonomously manages usage, battery life, and bandwidth.
“it automatically manages usage across the mesh to maximize utilization while also preserving battery life and bandwidth for everybody”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 6:07
Cellular networks degrade with crowd density, while Totem networks improve.
“the more cell phones you get in an area the worse they all work the more totems you get in an area the better they all work”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 7:05
At Lost Lands, Totem connected over 5,000 users and carried 330,000 messages offline.
“We had over 5,000 users on site and that was when we recorded some of our greatest mesh stats of all time. We had... 35 hops across the entire festival. The Mesh Network carried over 330,000 messages in the weekend, and we connected people across over 1.5 kilometers. That's like two miles or so. Purely offline, no towers, no infrastructure needed.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 7:54
Totem had over 5,000 users at Lost Lands.
“We had over 5,000 users on site”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 7:54
Totem’s mesh network carried over 330,000 messages at Lost Lands.
“The Mesh Network carried over 330,000 messages in the weekend”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 8:02
Totem connected users across more than 1.5 kilometers at Lost Lands.
“we connected people across over 1.5 kilometers”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 8:07
Mesh networks face cold-start problems but become more valuable with adoption.
“there's an inherent cold start problem to mesh networks where you know they get incredibly valuable as more adoption arrives”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 8:39
Mesh networks become more valuable as adoption increases.
“they get incredibly valuable as more adoption arrives”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 8:42
Totem achieves approximately one-meter median positioning accuracy.
“We get it pretty regularly. That's been our median accuracy over the last year.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 9:39
Totem positioning is five to fifteen times more accurate than cell-phone positioning.
“we typically get anywhere from five to 15 times the accuracy and precision that any cell phone does”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 11:19
Phone GPS drift can range from 20 to 150 feet.
“GPS drift with phones can be anywhere from 20 feet to 150 feet”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 11:27
Large phone companies rarely ship technology that undermines their core business models.
“Large companies like Apple, Samsung, any of these rarely ship products or technology that undercut their core business model”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 14:12
Totem’s typical purchase group grew from about 2.6 to 3.9 devices.
“our typical group size is has gone up over time significantly during the early days it was around 2.6 2.7 now we're at around 3.8 3.9 so the four bundle is definitely our most popular package”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 15:13
About 30% of Totem purchases recently came from recommendations or event encounters.
“around 30 of all of our purchases over the last couple of months have at checkout cited them either coming from someone recommending the totem compass or meeting someone in an event who was wearing it”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 16:21
Totem customers retain ownership for life after one purchase.
“you buy it once, you own it for life”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 17:28
Totem plans lifetime ownership without subscription-based network access revocation.
“you buy it once, you own it for life. We never plan to revoke access to the network based on any kind of subscription fees.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 17:28
Totem does not plan to revoke network access for nonpayment of subscriptions.
“We never plan to revoke access to the network based on any kind of subscription fees.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 17:29
Proprietary-data-generating hardware may be among the only remaining defensible moats.
“Hardware and in particular hardware that generates proprietary data is like kind of what some people look as really the only remaining moats in a world where pretty much any SaaS product could be rebuilt overnight.”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 19:26
Totem recently achieved approximately 58% gross margin.
“over the last month or two, we've been seeing the best margins that we have across the company around 58% gross margin”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 20:57
Totem’s event-generated network data may have substantial long-term value.
“the optimism around the long-term value of... the data of our network that our network is generating at these events”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 22:03
Totem collects fully aggregated and anonymous data.
“all the data that we collect is fully aggregated, anonymous data”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 23:51
Totem does not plan to sell its crowd data directly.
“we aren't planning to sell that data directly”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 24:30
Totem is building a predictive model for crowd flows.
“what we're building toward is a you know world first predictive model for crowd flows”
Open the episode · The Gadget That's Better in Crowds Than Your Phone + Ring’s Founder Before Amazon Bought It | E2349Listen at 24:33
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