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.”
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…”
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”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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, …”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”