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Mike Winn

CEO and Co-Founder, DroneDeploy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mike Winn co-founded DroneDeploy in 2013, guiding it to become a leading cloud-based reality capture, robotics, and AI software platform used across construction, energy, and agriculture. Before starting DroneDeploy, he worked at Google in sales and technical roles.

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 2 opinions · 2 insights · 7 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Assertion Supported
Winn: DroneDeploy launched with £100K Scottish government grant
“We did have a 100,000 pounds of grant money to back us.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 5:23 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

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Everything Mike Winn said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Winn: Entire drone industry has only tens of thousands of users
“I think in the entire industry, we're talking about tens of thousands of people.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 9:06 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Insight
Winn: Drones are the first ubiquitous industrial robots across business
“I think what's interesting about the drone space is it is the first type of industrial robot that's really becoming ubiquitous across businesses.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 11:17 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Winn: Future robotics platforms will orchestrate flying, driving, and floating drones
“So in the future, you can imagine all types of drones, those that fly, there's a float, there's a drive being working together on a platform like ours to not just detect problems, but actually to solve them.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 12:40 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Winn: Drones cut construction earthwork QA time from 10 days to one
“So now you can deploy a drone instead of having a man walking out of the GPS, you can deploy a drone and what would have taken previously about 10 days, you can now do in one day to actually get the data, understand the quality of the earth movements, where th…”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 15:11 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Opinion
Winn: DJI is crushing the commercial drone hardware space
“Never been an easy question. Add DJI is crushing it.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 20:29 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Disclosure
Winn: DroneDeploy has raised $31M across three venture capital rounds
“We've raised 31 from VCs over the last three years. We've done three rounds, seed AB, AB in July of last year.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 2:20 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Disclosure
Winn: DroneDeploy raised $20M in Series B, exceeding its target
“We raised 20 in our last round. That was a little bit more than we actually intended.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 2:43 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Disclosure
DroneDeploy charges around $100 per month for commercial SaaS plans
“We actually have freemium, so anyone can go and download our products. And if you want to use it commercially, then you'll probably want to pay us a hundred dollars a month.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 7:07 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Winn: DroneDeploy customer acquisition is almost entirely inbound
“We're pretty unique in the industry in the sense that we are almost entirely inbound.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 15:48 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Insight
Winn: SaaS packaging and pricing should adapt to seasonal customer usage
“If they only want to use the products for an amount of months of the year, like fine, you can extend that. We should, but you've just got to build your products and package it and price it in the right way.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 18:03 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Disclosure
Winn: DroneDeploy has cash runway through the end of 2018
“Oh, definitely. Probably through the end of 20 18.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 19:48 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Assertion Supported
Winn: DroneDeploy launched with £100K Scottish government grant
“We did have a 100,000 pounds of grant money to back us.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 5:23 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Disclosure
Winn paid himself £1,500 per month starting DroneDeploy
“Yeah, it was like 1500 pounds a month.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 5:39 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Disclosure
Mike Winn: DroneDeploy focuses exclusively on software rather than hardware
“No, we just do software. It's really hard to do. It's really hard to build a great software company.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 6:43 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Disclosure
DroneDeploy charges $300 monthly for its business tier
“If you want to do, make larger maps, larger, three D models at higher quality, then you need to get our business plan, which is 300 dollars a month.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 7:33 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Winn: DroneDeploy maintains an NPS around 40
“It's generally around 40.”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 16:17 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Winn: DroneDeploy experiences seasonal churn from winter weather in agriculture
“We have quite a, we have a business that suffers a little bit from the weather. You can imagine using a drone in the winter when it's snowing or raining is just a worse value proposition than in the summer. So that's something we definitely see is that we have…”
Mike Winn May 31, 2017 ▶ 17:17 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn

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676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine L May 31, 2017 10m
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