Harry Dewhirst: What If the Physical World Had an API? — 375ai, DePIN, and Real-Time Data for AI
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back to the Delphi podcast. I'm John, a ventures associate here at Delphi Ventures. Today, we're digging into one of the most ambitious real world applications of Deepen to date. I'm joined by Harry de Wurst, cofounder and CEO of three seven five AI, a company building a decentralized network of sensors to capture and monetize real world physical data at scale. Think traffic flows, vehicles, weather conditions, and a lot more, all captured directly from billboards and storefronts, processed by AI at the edge, and powered by on chain token incentives. Delphi Ventures is proud to be participatin
Pleasure to be here. Thanks.
So before we dive into, the story of three seven five, I'd like to kind of hear, your background. I know you have a very impressive run both in web two and web three, especially when it comes to monetizing data. And so why don't you share some of your insights and experiences that kind of led you to, now, build, three seven five? Sure.
So I've been a an entrepreneur most of my well, my whole career, really. I started a company, when I was in my twenties, and and and, that was a business that was helping Mobile Operators monetize their users, monetize their users' information more specifically. So we raised investment from some leading venture firms in the Valley, Sequoia, Accel, as well as strategic investors like Vodafone and Telefonica, and we built a platform that enabled them to make sense and understand who their customers were, but then of course be able to target and profile them for paying customers such as brands an
cool. Were you always interested in crypto? Like, you were you were the CEO of Linksys, and then you identified Helium. So I was I was kinda curious. Yeah.
I I had, I didn't have any professional exposure to crypto, but I I was holding crypto probably since 2006 1516. So but but as a retail investor, and and and I did have friends that had moved into working in the crypto space as their career. So I did, you know, tag along often and particularly particularly is my interest in in you know, DY at the time, now kind of more broadly known as DPIN, grew, I, you know, I would go to all the conferences and so on and and and have a fair number of of friendly faces to see thanks to to to people who are friends who've moved into the industry. But but, no,
Interesting. Very cool. So so at one point, March, you know, you were deploying other peep people's Deepen devices, and then you kind of made a hard pivot and decided to build your own network, own, devices, own token. What was the, like, light bulb moment for you, to to make that switch?
Yeah. So you're you're absolutely right. We we started the business with an intention of of being, you know, an enterprise or the biggest enterprise grade deployer of other people's deep end stuff, which we we, you know, achieved, and we became one of the larger miners of of various different projects in the space, Helium, XNET, and a handful of others. It was during that time that we learned obviously a lot about what we like about certain projects, what we don't, whether that's the tokenomics, whether that's kind of the the concepts, whether it's the demand side, whether it's the business mo
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