Zipline

“Money is not the rate-limiting factor with these kinds of new technologies. I actually think that practical problem-solving, you know, unfanciness, and, you know, willingness to ship product quickly and learn from customers is actually the rate-limiting factor…”

“There, we had signed this contract to deliver just blood, right, a very narrow part of the overall healthcare system to just 21 hospitals, and we thought, oh, that's great, we'll just knock that out, and then we can expand to other things. But for the first ni…”

“And so I think that, you know, the question of how long is it going to take to expand from the, You know, thousands of homes that are served today to the hundreds of millions of homes that we ultimately need to serve. I think that that process will probably ta…”

“We guarantee a service radius of a hundred kilometers around our distribution centers, and the vehicle can fly 300 kilometers on a single battery charge, because we have to go there and back.”

“You know, we had, ah, tens of millions of commercial autonomous miles with zero human safety incidents.”

“Yeah, it means, like, if you give us a dinner plate, we can deliver a package onto that dinner plate every single time.”

“We, you know, we've now crossed forty million commercial autonomous miles. It's become the largest commercial autonomous system of any kind, ground or air, on earth.”

“We deliver 75% of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside of Kigali fully autonomously.”

“And so we ended up signing a 200,000 dollar contract with the government of Rwanda to deliver blood to those 21 hospitals, and that was how we got started.”

“It turns out the drone is 15% of the complexity of the problem. There is so much auxiliary software and systems that have to be built around it because none of our customers care about drones. All our customers care about is teleportation.”

“We had this sense that if you wanted to deliver something very quickly over a distance of anywhere from, you know, say, 10 to 50 miles, you wanted to do that with a vehicle that was 10 times as fast as traditional logistics, half the cost, and zero emission. A…”

“And obviously now, you know, a lot of the countries we operate in have better cell service than the United States does.”

“Today we've delivered two million doses of COVID 19 vaccine, five million plus doses of traditional vaccine.”

“A lot of people may find it surprising, but the reality is Rwanda, you know, has really modeled itself on Singapore. It is a small, highly efficient, technocratic, fast-moving, innovative country in East Africa and, you know, run by a lot of very visionary lea…”