Jonathan Downey
Founder & CEO, Airware. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Jonathan Downey is the Founder and CEO of Airware, an aerial data startup using drones. He is also a General Partner at the Commercial Drone Fund.
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3said about them ↓ Everything Jonathan Downey said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Downey: The FAA granted over 4,000 commercial drone exemptions by mid-2016
“Yeah, so the section three 33 exemption process was created last fall, and now just, you know, nine months later or so, there's over 4000 granted exemptions in the U.S. For commercial use of drones across a variety of different industries”
Downey: Tech controls will overcome drone privacy concerns just as with GPS
“I think that the same thing is playing out here with drone use, which is to say, yes, this is a technology that could be used to invade people's privacy, but with some basically, you know, technology controls on it can also add a tremendous amount of value to …”
Downey: Privacy laws should be technology-agnostic regardless of whether drones are used
“These types of laws should be technology agnostic. Shouldn't matter whether it's binoculars used or whether it's a drone used or a ladder.”
Downey: Major enterprises will deploy commercial drones operationally by late 2017
“So I think that's the thing that's most exciting to me and something that I also expect we're going to see in the next 18 months. Commercial companies actually move forward with, you know, commercial drones and aerial data as a way of doing business.”
Jonathan Downey says consumer drone innovation enables the commercial drone market
“I think we've seen a ton of innovation actually come from the consumer space, which is proving to be an incredible enabler for the commercial market, because at this point, the consumer drones, which, you know, started as fun flying toys under our Christmas tr…”
DJI dominates drone hardware manufacturing through vertical integration in China
“One is actually building the drones, and this is a space that's dominated by players like DJI, which are vertically integrated in China, really focused on being operationally excellent when it comes to manufacturing, and really focused on kind of rapidly itera…”
Jonathan Downey argues enterprise drone software must be as boring as possible
“This needs to be as boring as it possibly can be. You want your team member to be able to show up with a drone, do as little as possible, have that drone just fly the pattern that's required to collect the aerial data, and then transform that data and deliver …”
Large enterprise CIOs now evaluate drone technology like standard enterprise IT
“Large enterprises are making kind of enterprise-wide decisions, you know, in the CIO's office about adopting, evaluating, and implementing this technology just as they would a lot of other enterprise IT.”
Jonathan Downey predicts the FAA will enable beyond visual line of sight
“Today from the FAA you're not able to fly drones beyond a visual observer's ability to see the drone, but that is going to be changing, and the FAA is going to come out with rules enabling you to do that, and there is a number of key technologies that are goin…”
Enterprises prefer partnering with aerial data experts over developing in-house technology
“I would say most companies, while they may begin thinking this is core to their business in terms of developing some of the drone technology, really realize this is context for them, and it's best for them to partner with a company who really brings that aeria…”
Manual roof and tower inspections will seem archaic within five years
“I think in five years, companies are going to look back on the way things are being done today as part of their business and think about how archaic it is. People climbing up on towers, climbing up on rooftops, waiting days and weeks sometimes for accurate inf…”
Andreessen Horowitz made the commercial drone space's first $10 million investment
“And that led to the first ten million dollar investment into the drone space with Andreessen Horowitz.”
Early commercial drone startups attempted to build hardware and software simultaneously
“A couple of years ago, it was a extremely early market, and so almost every company in the space was doing a little bit of everything. Some amount of kind of building hardware and building drones and software and data and analysis and a lot of manual work and …”
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- 20VC: Coinbase's Brian Armstrong on The Rise & Short Term Correction in ICOs, The Regulatory Framework Required For Blockchain To Succeed & How The Rise of Blockchain Disrupts The VC Industry
- 20VC: Why It Is Good Company Funding Has Been Down 6 Quarters In A Row, Why Unanimity Does Not Work In VC Decision-Making & Why It Is Dangerous To Be A Spreadsheet Investor with Scott Raney, Partner @ Redpoint Ventures
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| 20VCLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Airware | 1 | 9 | 100% 1/1 | full record on 20VC → |
 a16zLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Airware | 2 | 4 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |