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Totem co-founder and CEO Carter Fowler joined Alex Wilhelm on This Week in Startups (E2349) to talk about why your phone fails in crowds, why Totem works the opposite way, and what's next. Watch the episode, read the highlights, and get the full transcript.

A Totem message made 35 hops across the Unity Mesh Network at Lost Lands 2026, with no cell service. That's five times Meshtastic's maximum setting. Here's how the record was measured, what it does and doesn't mean, and how Totem's offline mesh works in plain English.

Two Totem Compasses can reach each other directly at up to roughly 1,000 meters (about 2/3 of a mile) in open, ideal conditions, with no cell service. When other Totems are around, the Unity Mesh Network can relay locations further. Here's how it works and what affects it.