Sofar’s Tim Janssen: “Google Maps for the ocean”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Sofar’s Tim Janssen: “Google Maps for the ocean”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:42:49
• Published: 2021-07-16 04:00

The Sunday Times' tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tim Janssen of Sofar to talk about the paucity of ocean data (3:30), creating an ocean sensing network (6:15), the engineering challenge (8:30), modeling (10:30), why he left academia (15:15), raising money (19:20), coming here from the Netherlands (21:10), his customers (22:30), what’s happening in the oceans (33:25), and dropping the first sensor in the water (37:30).

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