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#### <span class="text-xl subtitle">A STRONG VISION FOR THE FUTURE</span>


## **The Internet as <br><span class="blue">Hope for Humanity</span>**


ThreeFold was started by a group of passionate Internet & Cloud veterans who wants to restore the Internet to its original glory.
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*The Internet is a network of computers which are typically hosted in large data centers. These data centers are owned by a few large corporations. This is not how the Internet was designed. The Internet was designed to be decentralized, open, and available to everyone.*
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**We have invented a new data, cloud, and network system as an engine for an upgraded Internet.**


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#### <span class="blue uppercase">ROADMAP</span>


## **Expanding ThreeFold**


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#### <span class="green_text uppercase">rethinking the way the internet works </span>


## **ThreeFold’s Journey**


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#### OUR JOURNEY BEGAN<br><span class="green_text uppercase">+10 YEARS AGO</span>


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Years ago, we realized that the existing Internet Infrastructure isn’t sustainable nor secure, lack sovereignty and will not succeed to meet future Internet demands.


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In response, we came together with a shared mission- to design a revolutionary decentralized, open-source, inclusive and sustainable cloud solution for all.


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#### WHERE WE ARE<br><span class="blue uppercase">TODAY</span>


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The ThreeFold Grid is in its third generation technology and live in +50 countries. 

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We are at the start of a journey to millions of nodes and will soon launch the fourth generation of the ThreeFold Grid.
For this, a token called $INCA will been created.



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#### <span class="blue uppercase">MEET THE TEAM</span>


## **Founded by <span class="green_text">Internet 1.0 Pioneers</span>**


We are a dedicated group committed to advancing a new digital era. Some of us have been working on Internet technology since the early days, when it was a decentralized network. We aim to help bring that vision to life once more. Beyond those below, we have more than 50 engineers, developers, and [other team members](/people) supporting the project.


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**KRISTOF DE SPIEGELEER** <br>


<p class="blue text-base font-semibold">Co-Founder & CEO</p>


<p class="text-base leading-tight">Serial entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in Internet infrastructure and cloud technology. Passionate about tech for good. +600m $ exits.</p>


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**FLORIAN FOURNIER** <br>


<p class="blue text-base font-semibold">Co-Founder & CMO</p>


<p class="text-base leading-tight">Ex Apple marketing director, serial entrepreneur living between Africa and Latin America.</p>


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**ADNAN FATAYERJI** <br>


<p class="blue text-base font-semibold">Co-Founder</p>


<p class="text-base leading-tight">Tech entrepreneur with multiple exits. Based in Dubai for 20 years. Head of Partnerships and Business Development.</p>


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**JAN DE LANDTSHEER** <br>


<p class="blue text-base font-semibold">Co-Founder & CTO</p>


<p class="text-base leading-tight">40+ years of experience in deep tech, networking, cloud and storage.</p>


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**ALEXANDRE HANNELAS** <br>


<p class="blue text-base font-semibold">CFO</p>


<p class="text-base leading-tight">Finance lead with experience in Investment Banking and Administration.</p>


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**SACHA OBEEGADOO** <br>


<p class="blue text-base font-semibold">Business Development & Community</p>


<p class="text-base leading-tight">Business development lead with strong network on African continent. </p>


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#### <span class="blue">KEY ACHIEVEMENTS TO DATE</span>


## **Milestones in Our Journey**


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<p class="bg-gray-50 p-2 road_border">The ThreeFold Grid: connected across +50 countries by independent people and organizations called ThreeFold farmers, live and usable in its third generation opensource technology.
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<p class="bg-gray-50 p-2 road_border">Partnerships with governments, to deploy physical infrastructure and introducing coding academies and innovation hubs across the country, to deploy physical infrastructure locally.
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<p class="bg-gray-50 p-2 road_border">An extensive community of 1000+ farmers and several thousand others – grid users and supporters / advocates of the project
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<p class="bg-gray-50 p-2 road_border">Our strategic partnerships with key DePIN players: more will be announced soon</p>




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#### <span class="green_text uppercase">OUR MISSION & VISION</span>


## **Empowering <span class="blue"> Human Potential</span>**


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*We believe that the Internet should be affordable, accessible, and available to everyone on the planet.*


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We envision a global, community-driven network of interconnected computers that democratizes the deployment of the Internet. 
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We support an open ecosystem that facilitates the seamless exchange of Internet network, data and cloud capacity.

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**This internet needs to be available in every region, reliable, secure, private, and sustainable.**

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#### <span class="green_text uppercase">BE PART OF OUR JOURNEY</span>


## **Let’s redefine our digital <br>landscape <span class="blue"> together</span>**


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   <a href="https://manual.grid.tf" target="_blank">
    <h4 class="green_text font-normal my-0">Manuals</h4>
    <p class="white-gray font-normal">Dive deeper into our technology</p>
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   <a href="https://threefoldfaq.crisp.help/en/" target="_blank">
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