{"id":69077,"date":"2024-07-23T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/navy-seal-to-maritime-founder-with-joe-wolfel-from-terradepth\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:44:53","slug":"navy-seal-to-maritime-founder-with-joe-wolfel-from-terradepth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/navy-seal-to-maritime-founder-with-joe-wolfel-from-terradepth\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Seal to maritime founder with Joe Wolfel from Terradepth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that water covers 71% of the Earth, there is still so much we don\u2019t know about the <!--more--> ocean floor and\u00a0 today\u2019s founder is looking to change that. Joe Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO of Terradepth (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.terradepth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.terradepth.com\/<\/a>) , the company that is working towards increasing ocean knowledge through autonomous, high resolution, scalable data collection in the deep ocean. On this week\u2019s episode of Found, Becca is joined by guest co-host, Tim De Chant to discuss why mapping geological features at the bottom of the ocean isn\u2019t just something worth doing for curiosity\u2019s sake, it\u2019s important to a variety of players from companies looking to install offshore wind farms to the Navy. They also get into who is buying this kind of data (<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/11\/terradepth-raises-another-20-million-to-map-the-ocean-floor-with-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/04\/11\/terradepth-raises-another-20-million-to-map-the-ocean-floor-with-robots\/<\/a>) , how Wolfel\u2019s experience as a Navy Seal prepared him for entrepreneurship, and the trend of deeptech founders needing to find revenue streams early on as they\u2019re developing their technology.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(0:00) Introduction<\/p>\n<p>(2:07) Robotics role in mapping the ocean<\/p>\n<p>(8:49) Scaling maritime data collection<\/p>\n<p>(15:47) Fundraising challenges for hardware companies<\/p>\n<p>(21:57) Transitioning from Navy to entrepreneurship<\/p>\n<p>(24:13) Data-driven decision making<\/p>\n<p>(29:43) Finding the right customer base<\/p>\n<p>(35:14) Host discussion<\/p>\n<p>Found posts every Tuesday. 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Subscribe to Found (<a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/found\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/pod.link\/found<\/a>)  to hear more stories from founders each<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Connect with us:<\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  On Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/found\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/found<\/a>)<br \/>\n  \u2022  On Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/foundpod\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/foundpod\/<\/a>)<br \/>\n  \u2022  Via email: found@techcrunch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that water covers 71% of the Earth, there is still so much we don\u2019t know about the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}