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title: "ThreeFold's Vision and Mission"
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    description_1="ThreeFold is a pioneering decentralized Internet project designed to create a more open, secure, and sustainable digital infrastructure. By leveraging a global peer-to-peer network of independent nodes, ThreeFold eliminates reliance on centralized cloud providers, ensuring greater privacy, resilience, and accessibility. This innovative model empowers individuals and organizations to contribute computing, storage, and networking resources to the ThreeFold Grid, forming the foundation for a truly autonomous and resilient",
    description_2="We are currently running V3.16, a large-scale proof of concept network and are now preparing for Version 4, a major upgrade to enable our Web4 vision. The ThreeFold Grid is in more than 50 countries with +2000 nodes online providing data, network and cloud resources to users.",
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## Founders & Key Voices

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    name="KRISTOF DE SPIEGELEER",
    title="Co-Founder & CEO",
    description_1="Is a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience in Internet infrastructure and cloud technology, holding multiple patents and world records in storage and automation solutions used by industry giants like Oracle, Verizon, and Western Digital. He has founded over ten companies, with seven successful exits totaling over $600M. A pioneer in building the Internet and data center business in Europe, Kristof is now focused on creating a decentralized, sovereign Internet through ThreeFold. Guided by a belief that doing good for the world and delivering investor returns can coexist, he champions respect, transparency, and innovation in every venture. Kristof has previously spoken at Davos.",
    image_src="/images/people/kristof_de_spiegeleer.jpeg",
    image_alt="KRISTOF DE SPIEGELEER",
    linkedin_link="https://www.linkedin.com/in/despiegk/"
) }}

{{ founders(
    name="FLORIAN FOURNIER",
    title="Co-Founder & CMO",
    description_1="Florian Fournier is a serial entrepreneur and ex marketing director at Apple. He's a co-founder at ThreeFold primarily focused on marketing and business development.",
    image_src="/images/people/florian_fournier.jpeg",
    image_alt="FLORIAN FOURNIER",
    description_2="Florian aims to help in bringing new ways of living together, relating, moving, consuming, taking care of each other and working in a more sustainable way, through unpacking current scenarios and anticipating future perspectives. He has previously spoken at Davos and at Balaji Srinivasan’s event Network State, to great acclaim.",
    linkedin_link="/images/people/florian_fournier.jpeg"
) }}

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## Social Media & Community



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    title="GitHub | Tech",
    subtitle="Open-Source Collaboration for Tech Development"
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{{ social(
    link="https://github.com/threefoldtech",
    image_src="/images/github_dark.png",
    image_alt="GitHub | Foundation",
    title="GitHub | Foundation",
    subtitle="Open-source Collaboration for Websites and Online Info"
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{{ social(
    link="https://x.com/threefold_io",
    image_src="/images/twitter.png",
    image_alt="X | Twitter",
    title="X | Twitter",
    subtitle="Connect With Us"
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{{ social(
    link="https://t.me/threefoldnews",
    image_src="/images/telegram.png",
    image_alt="Telegram News",
    title="Telegram News",
    subtitle="Stay Updated"
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    link="https://t.me/threefold",
    image_src="/images/telegram.png",
    image_alt="Telegram Main Chat",
    title="Telegram Main Chat",
    subtitle="Community Conversation"
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{{ social(
    link="https://t.me/threefoldfarmers",
    image_src="/images/telegram.png",
    image_alt="Telegram Farmers Chat",
    title="Telegram Farmers Chat",
    subtitle="Farming Community"
) }}

{{ social(
    link="https://t.me/threefoldtesting",
    image_src="/images/linkedin_dark.png",
    image_alt="Telegram News",
    title="Telegram Grid User Chat",
    subtitle="Grid User Community"
) }}

{{ social(
    link="https://www.reddit.com/r/threefold/",
    image_src="/images/reddit_dark.png",
    image_alt="Reddit",
    title="Reddit",
    subtitle="Join In"
) }}

{{ social(
    link="https://www.youtube.com/@ThreeFoldFoundation",
    image_src="/images/youtube.png",
    image_alt="Telegram News",
    title="Telegram Grid User Chat",
    subtitle="Grid User Community"
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    <h6 class="text-white mt-4 font-semibold">E-mail Newsletter</h6>
    <p class="text-base text-white  leading-snug">Updates in Your Inbox</p>
</a> 


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    link="https://www.linkedin.com/company/threefold-io/",
    image_src="/images/linkedin_dark.png",
    image_alt="LinkedIn",
    title="LinkedIn",
    subtitle="Let's Network"
) }}





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