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SOURCERY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cliffton: Autonomous delivery will operate 24/7 like the internet
“Outside the US, we operate 24 seven. We expect to soon be operating 24 seven in the US. These kinds of systems are gonna feel more like the internet than like UPS.”
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Jan 21, 2026 ▶ 19:52 Zipline: The Largest Autonomous Delivery System on Earth (and You’ve Barely Heard of It) · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
PRODUCT MARKET FIT Assertion Supported
Fradin: Half of US Workers Lack Corporate Email Addresses
“About half of the people that work in America today do not have working. It's not something you and I really think about, but you know, Walmart has two million employees don't have it. Walmart.com email addresses, right? UPS has 300,000 drivers and people work…”
Russ Fradin Nov 10, 2025 ▶ 13:40 He walked away from $5M ARR—then built a $50M company. | Russ Fradin, Founder of Larridin · PMF Show
NEON SHOW Assertion Partly supported
Dübendorfer: Top co-founded startup generates $70M revenue serving OpenAI and Uber
“Currently not, no, they're still all there, and the biggest one has 300 employees makes seventy million revenues with a SaaS model, and serves the likes of OpenAI, and Uber, and Nasdaq, and UPS in brand management”
Thomas Dübendorfer Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 27:03 With a Swiss Founder-Investor Who Built 9 Startups and Funded 40 | Thomas Dübendorfer
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Cliffton: 5.5 billion instant deliveries take place annually in the US
“There are now five and a half billion instant deliveries being done every year just in the US. And that's not like Amazon or UPS. That's just the instant deliveries.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 58:08 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mark Cuban says Rebel Cheese saves thousands weekly using an AI agent
“One of my Shark Tank companies is Rebel Cheese. And they added a direct to consumer business. And they created an agent that compares the weight that comes off the scale for what they're saying, or the box type, and what they were invoiced by UPS or FedEx, and…”
Mark Cuban Sep 9, 2025 ▶ 31:22 Mark Cuban on the NBA, Cost Plus Drugs, and How to Fix Politics
HOW I BUILT THIS Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Electric cargo planes will bypass standard airports within four to six years
“In the near future, the next few years, they'll go to the airport only because of regulatory challenges of putting off airport landing sites. But in the next four to six years, what'll happen is these aircraft will actually go to the distribution center, which…”
Kyle Clark Aug 24, 2023 ▶ 29:58 Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
ALL-IN Assertion Partly supported
Friedberg: Amazon reached 25% delivery share in 2020, surpassing FedEx and UPS
“At the end of 2020, Amazon was already up to 25% market share which put them ahead of both FedEx and UPS.”
David Friedberg Sep 17, 2022 ▶ 1:07:25 E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Amazon will build the world's largest parcel carrier, preventing new entrants
“I don't personally think we're going to see another parcel carrier. Parcel would be like FedEx UPS start ground up like ever. I think what we'll see is, is Amazon come in and build the largest parcel carrier in the world, sort of from the side door or top down…”
Oren Zaslansky Jan 1, 2021 ▶ 18:10 FlockFreight Grows 400% YoY, 500k Pallets Shipped, Still Shy of $1b Valuation
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Agarwal: Last-mile delivery will be the first segment disrupted by autonomous vehicles
“Well, I think the technology for last mile delivery, that's generally going to be the first to be disrupted. You could see a, just using an example, like a UPS truck would park on a corner and you could have a numerous number of robots or small delivery vehicl…”
Sharad Agarwal Aug 27, 2020 ▶ 26:21 SPECIAL EPISODE – Introducing Invisible Forces Podcast
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tosi: Milk Bar Launched Shipping Using Drugstore Ice Packs and Email Orders
“I went to, like, all the local drugstores and bought those, like, break and freeze ice packs, and then went to all of, like, the UPS and USPS stores and was like, I'll take all the boxes. I'll take all the boxes, and just showed up at the bakery and was like, …”
Christina Tosi Oct 14, 2019 ▶ 50:03 Live Episode! Milk Bar: Christina Tosi
a16z Disclosure
UPS funds and advises Zipline's national drone delivery network in Rwanda
“UPS is basically supporting the work that we're doing in Rwanda. So they've both been helping fund the work and then also been advising us in terms of actually creating a logistics network at national scale.”
Keller Rinaudo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:53 a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
a16z Insight
Centralized medical inventory is economically superior to stocking 6,000 hospitals
“There's many healthcare-related products that are extremely expensive to store, so you don't want to have Significant amounts of inventory in every hospital in the U.S., 6000 hospitals, you know, it's much more efficient to locate a smaller quantity of invento…”
John Mena Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:39 a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
a16z Insight
Rinaudo: Drones target suburban and rural logistics, not skyscrapers
“It's very efficient for UPS to drive a big brown truck up to the lobby of a skyscraper and unload it. Whereas We're a lot more focused on suburban and rural where it's less efficient.”
Keller Rinaudo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:06 a16z Podcast | Drones for Delivery in Healthcare
a16z Assertion Supported
Jordan: Pre-Christmas orders overwhelmed UPS and USPS delivery capacity
“And the real collision came last year on the, you know, right before Christmas, because everyone said, okay, on the December, 23rd, I can place orders and expect and get them on the 24th. And I'm a hero on Christmas and everyone placed those orders and it just…”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:02 a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Jordan: UPS and USPS proactively capped last-day holiday shipping volumes
“There's a story in the newspaper a couple of weeks ago about UPS and USPS proactively going to the companies and saying, how much last day shipping do you want to basically reserve? And by the way, that's all you're going to get.”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:20 a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision
a16z Prediction Held up
Jordan: Amazon will handle low-cost shipments, leaving high-cost deliveries to UPS
“I've got a thesis that they will soon be, I think they are already entering the shipping market cherry picking the best the, low, the lowest cost shipments they are starting to do themselves. Increasingly and just leave UPS with the higher cost shipments, whic…”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:11 a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision
a16z Opinion
Jordan: The best outcome for USPS is privatization by Amazon or UPS
“USPS is, you know, been having, you know, been running a massive loss for many, many, many years. I mean, for me, the best outcome is either one of two people buys it and basically privatizes it, UPS or Amazon.”
Jeff Jordan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:09 a16z Podcast | Ecommerce and the Holiday Shopping Collision
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reichert: Long-term advances in on-demand 3D printing will disrupt FedEx and UPS
“Yeah, I think if you look at the long, long term, I actually would be short on FedEx and UPS. You know, like, rather than having to ship things around the world on airplanes, it wouldn't be great just to download the design and print it out, you know, right wh…”
Tom Reichert Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:49 a16z Podcast | The Next Phase of 3D Printing
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Shippo will not sell to carriers like UPS or FedEx
“Here, what we're talking about is that we really try to be carrier agnostic. So we don't want to be owned by the UPS or FedEx or USPS. We want to work with all different shipping providers. That's the power of the platform.”
Laura Behrens-Wu Oct 6, 2016 ▶ 17:28 EP 439: $9m Raised, GoShippo Helps Little Guy Drop Ship 1,000,000+ Packages Per Month Already with CEO Laura Behrens Wu
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Rebilled postage accounts for roughly half of Whiplash's gross revenue
“About half of that is the carrier fees. What, you know, we rebuild the postage, whether that's UPS or USPS.”
James Marks Jan 23, 2016 ▶ 2:35 How To Build an 8 Figure Business Fast with James Marks of WhipLash

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