Ep 1 - Ian Schuler - Building an impact driven geospatial company

Welcome to the First Episode of Minds behind Maps!I hope you enjoy this conversation with Ian Schuler. I'm going to try to keep track of most of the things we talked about in this episode if you want to go check them out yourself. Keep track of what Ian & Development Seed are doing:https://twitter.com/ianschulerhttps://twitter.com/developmentseedLinks to materials discussed in the episode:Development Seed school mapping: https://developmentseed.org/blog/2021-03-18-ai-enabling-school-mappingJoe Morrison's blog: https://joemorrison.substack.com/welcomeEarly days of Development Seed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/egundersen/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianshward/, Signal's founder, Moxie Marlinspike: https://twitter.com/moxie I'm going to try to provide a basic version of time-stamps if you want to skip by some sections:00:00 : Intro1:25 : Beginning of episode; Ian presenting himself7:55 : Why open source?19:00 : Trust in a world of AI models26:25 : How to communicate the limitations of machine learning solutions36:45 : Which data to use for which problem?42:25 : What is important in satellite imagery?55:00 : Data fusion1:00:25 : Deciding who to work with1:07:10 : Origins of Development Seed1:11:00 : Ian's previous work1:15:40 : So do you build & lead a company around impact?1:30:05 : Working in the days of covid1:40:35 : A last note on the future of geospatial data  Feel free to drop me a line, I'd love to know what you think of [email protected]@gmail.comThanks for listening