In this episode of the Token Warrant podcast, hosts Mike Zajko and Regan Bozman are joined by Tim Khoury from Faction and Manolis Nikiforakis from WeatherXM. They explore WeatherXM's community-based weather infrastructure, incentivizing participants with token rewards and selling data to weather-sensitive industries. Tim discusses Faction's investment diligence and highlights Weather XM's superior forecast models. Manolis discusses the technical setup for weather enthusiasts and the use of blockchain for data verification. 

00:00 Tim and Manos introduce Faction VC and WeatherXM

02:53 Weather Sensitive Business 

04:51 Kitesurfing Inspiration 

07:07 The WeatherXM journey 

14:10 Discovering Helium

19:31 Crypto pilled and first fundraise

22:18 Tim talks about learning about WeatherXM

26:13 The weather market and Faction digs into WeatherXM 

31:13 WeatherXM’s accuracy 

38:49 Investing in WeatherXM

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