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Founder’s journey with Powerloom where the Founder is talking about how they first got involved with IPFS, how they are using IPFS tech, how they pivoted/navigated challenges, and how they got funding to grow their project.
A
Hey
everyone:
my
name
is
swarup
and
I'm,
one
of
the
co-founders
of
Power
Loom,
before
I
sort
of
get
started.
I
actually
had
a
very
technical
presentation,
because
I'm
so
used
to
giving
those
and
I
I
had
a
look
at
the
track
today
and
I
think
this
would
be
a
little
more
helpful
in
line
with
what
we
are
doing
and
I'm
glad,
because
for
a
few
of
the
things
I've
spoken,
the
two
speakers
before
me
have
sort
of
put
in
a
little
bit
of
that
initial
thing.
A
How
do
you
become
a
builder
and
then
how
do
you
get
a
grant
and
the
best
part
is
I.
Think
after
me,
it's
Reuben
who's
going
to
talk
about.
How
do
you
take
your
hackathon
idea
into
building
a
company
and
then
the
awesome
part
is
people
that
I've
actually
worked
with
closely
with
tachyon
they're
going
to
do
a
panel
after
that.
So
it's
going
to
be
very
much
in
line
so
before
I
sort
of
get
started.
I
just
wanted
to
get
an
idea.
A
How
many
of
you
are
I
guess
we
already
had
a
question
around
how
many
are
developers
here?
How
many
of
you
have
wanted
to
either
you're
already
a
founder
or
you're
wanting
to
build
a
company
on
top
of
itfs
or
filecoin?
Awesome.
That's
great
okay,
so,
hopefully
I'll
be
more
relevant.
Okay,
all
right
too
many
sorry
I
have
a
very
strong
firewall.
Okay,
there
we
go.
Maybe
a
little
bit
of
background
about
me.
I've
been
a
builder
and
an
entrepreneur
for
about
20
years.
I
love
tinkering
with
stuff.
A
These
days,
I,
probably
code
a
little
less
than
I
used
to,
but
I
still
enjoy
doing
it.
That's
why
I
love
coming
into
hackathons.
This
is
actually
my
first
trip
here
in
Lisbon,
so
I've
been
like
sort
of
jumping
around
wherever
I
can
see
the
devs
and
sort
of
encourage
people
to
sort
of
build
companies
and
I've
mostly
been
in
technology
all
my
life,
but
I
wanted
to
sort
of
talk
a
little
bit
about
my
journey
in
well
to
code
web3.
A
It's
not
one
of
my
favorite
towns,
but
that's
what
we
have
as
an
industry.
We
have
accepted
that
something
that's
a
whole
umbrella
term,
for
what
we
do
and
I
actually
got
started
with
a
developer
tool.
So
this
was
in
end
of
2017:
I
was
actually
building
my
own
I
think
I
was
building
some
sort
of
a
simple
one-month
hackathon,
while
I
was
Consulting.
A
So
it's
it
was
interesting
when
that
question
came
up.
I
immediately
thought
about
that.
So
I
spent
my
evenings
building
that
online
and
while
I
was
building
that
I
realized,
it
was
really
difficult
for
developers
to
build
on
top
of
blockchain
and
different
resources.
So
that's
why
I
built
my
first
company
not
to
sort
of
go
over
it.
This
is
just
a
quick
overview.
You
can
still
take
a
look
I,
don't
think
we've
really.
A
We
maintained
that
product,
and
that
was
my
first
foray
and
we
continued
building
that
for
about
three
years
bootstrapped
it
there
was
no
funding
very
different
Market.
There
was
no
money
in
the
space
at
that
time
and
from
there
we
actually
went
on
to
help
this
very
unknown
company
at
that
time
called
Marek
now
they're
well
known
as
polygon,
and
we
actually
were
the
first
ones
to
sort
of
build
some
infrastructure
products
on
top
of
it,
so
which
is
pretty
crazy
for
us.
A
This
was
I,
think
around
covet,
so
yeah
somewhere
around
mid
of
2020,
and
we
went
on
to
organically
get
this
crazy
growth
and
it
was
awesome
to
sort
of
support
developers.
I
think
we
started
out
with
just
a
million
API
calls
a
day
with
like
one
or
two
customers,
and
we
scale
that
to
I
think
about
a
billion
API
calls
a
day.
Oh
yeah,
there's
the
graphic
on
the
side
and
we
had
like
20
000
devs,
and
this
was
just
us
building
it
on
the
site.
A
So
one
of
the
hackathon
ideas
I
presented,
it
was
I
believe
the
first
official
one
from
protocol
Labs
called
hack,
fs
and
I
took
part
in
it.
It
was
just
a
test
to
be
honest
and
I.
Remember
I
used
to
not
have
this
nice
little
MacBook
and
my
machine
basically
crashed
during
the
live
demo
in
front
of
thousands
of
people
during
the
finale
and
it
was
like
I
was
in
a
remote
part
of
India.
A
There
was
no
internet
connection
and
it
basically
couldn't
work,
but
the
awesome
thing
is
you
know:
I
was
able
to
present
it
still
and
get
a
lot
of
Outreach
and
that
helped
me
get
into
this
program
called
tachyon
and
I.
Believe
somebody
is
at
least
here
today,
yes,
Sean's
here,
okay,
awesome,
you're,
going
to
hear
more
about
this
in
I.
Believe
two
talks
after
this
one,
so
we
went
through
this
program.
A
So
this
was
our
sort
of
our
initial
beginnings
of
what
paulum
does
and
I'm
not
going
to
like
shill
about
what
we
do.
I'm
gonna
present
it
right
at
the
end.
Maybe
you
guys
can
take
a
look
later,
but
I
just
wanted
to
explain
you
how
we
sort
of
iterated
to
what
we
are
today.
So
we
presented
that
that
another
hackathon
and
I
think
that's
where
we
really
got
the
confidence,
and
you
know,
thankfully,
having
awesome
mentors
like
Owen
Bennett
himself.
We
actually
finally
reached
that.
A
Okay,
this
is
the
protocol
that
we
want
to
build
and
we
managed
to
raise
three
million
dollars
last
year.
All
thanks
to
you
know
it
was
just
a
side
gig
right,
because
we
were
still
doing
that
other
thing
on
the
site
and
trying
to
get
this
idea
of
the
Quran.
So
that's
what
I
want
to
encourage
you
guys
that
sometimes
what
you
might
think
is
just
an
idea
which
may
not
deserve
a
lot
of
recognition.