Zipline

14 statements across 3 episodes · 13 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 30, 2025 by Keller Rinaudo Clifton · said 44 times in 8 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cliffton: Zipline customers order 3-4 times weekly with a 94 NPS
“Customers are ordering three to four times per week from Zipline. The service has a net promoter score of 94”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 47:09 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Cliffton: Zipline is the world's largest commercial autonomous system by mileage
“It's actually become the largest commercial autonomous system on Earth of any kind, ground or air, based on those flight miles.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 44:47 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cliffton: Zipline flies 50 autonomous aircraft simultaneously across 500 Rwandan facilities
“And by 10 a.m., there are 50 autonomous aircraft out making deliveries simultaneously to all of the 500 hospitals and health facilities that we serve in the country.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 42:41 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Cliffton: Packages under eight pounds comprise 95 percent of Amazon deliveries
“The system is designed to deliver up to eight pounds, and eight pounds gets you like, 95% of all packages delivered by Amazon. I think it's like, 95% of food delivery orders.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 1:00:18 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Cliffton: Zipline passed 115 million autonomous miles with zero safety incidents
“So, you know, stepping back, Zipline's now surpassed one hundred and fifteen million commercial autonomous miles. We serve about 5000 hospitals and health facilities globally, over 1.6 million deliveries like that one you saw in that video and zero safety inci…”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 44:29 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cliffton: Zipline's average drone delivery time is currently 18 minutes
“The average time of delivery right now is 18 minutes.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 50:10 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Cliffton: Zipline is the most cost-effective vaccine delivery method ever studied
“And when this was studied by a major global health institution for the cost effectiveness of delivering vaccine, it was found to be the most cost effective way of delivering vaccines to zero dose children ever studied.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 43:57 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Cliffton: Zipline deliveries reduced under-five childhood mortality by 60 percent
“A new study came out a couple months ago actually showing a 60% reduction in under five childhood mortality due to malnutrition, one of the new products we've begun delivering in the last few years.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 43:46 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Cliffton: Zipline's autonomous drones accelerate to 100 km/h in 0.33 seconds
“It accelerates from zero. To about a hundred kilometers an hour and a third of a second.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 41:03 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Cliffton: Zipline's drone delivery reduced hospital maternal mortality by 51 percent
“The system has been able to reduce maternal mortality, as measured by the University of Pennsylvania, by 51% across the hospitals we serve.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 43:25 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Cliffton: Zipline operates approximately 20 distribution centers across eight countries
“The system at this point can recover an aircraft about every 60 seconds, and we operate about 20 distribution centers across eight countries.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 41:42 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Sep 30, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cliffton: Zipline is more than doubling its flight volume every month
“Over the last three months, the service has been growing about between 20 and 30% week over week. So it's more than doubling flight volume every month.”
Keller Rinaudo Clifton Sep 30, 2025 ▶ 46:53 Science Corner Special! David Friedberg, Cleo Abram, Alex Filippenko, and Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Jun 7, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Baker: Zipline reduced maternal mortality in African regions by 90% to 95%
“They have cut The maternal mortality rate in some of these African countries by 90 to 95%.”
Gavin Baker Jun 7, 2026 ▶ 37:49 Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
Aug 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Calacanis: Uber and Zipline Partnership Will Reach 1 Million Daily Deliveries
“Zipline just did a partnership with Uber. I'm investors in both of those companies, obviously, and they are going to do a million deliveries a day.”
Jason Calacanis Aug 21, 2026 ▶ 36:11 Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
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