Christian Rouffaert is founder and CEO of Teragence. This is a map driven web app showing mobile network signal strength. It enables such modern products as robotic lawn mowers. This is because they rely on mobile data to control and position the robot so it does not munch expensive, pretty flower beds.

The conversation also covered the practice of entrepreneurship more broadly. For example, I believe he has given the most detailed answer so far about working backward from customer needs. Christian showed what it means to have a management consulting background in answering this question. The conversation was also useful for providing an outsider's perspective on what is interesting, and not so interesting, about geospatial.

Here, Christian offered the perspective that what he and others are waiting for is a Tableau moment for geospatial. Tableau offered an intuitive, graphical interface for general data and information interrogation. Suddenly vastly more people had the power to derive insights where before that was the province of software developers.

What will be the Tableau of geospatial?

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The Geospatial Index is a comprehensive listing of all publicly traded geospatial businesses worldwide. Why? The industry is growing at ~5.4% annually (after inflation and after adjusting for base rates). This rate varies significantly, however, by sub index. For ~$400,000 to start, this growth rate is $5,000,000 over a working life. This channel, Bluesky account, newsletter, watchlist and podcast express the view that you are serious about geospatial if you take the view of an investor, venture capitalist or entrepreneur. You are expected to do your own research. This is not a replacement for that. This is not investment advice. Consider it entertainment.

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