Mike Winn: DroneDeploy focuses exclusively on software rather than hardware
Mike Winn · 676: $30M raised, will DroneDeploy create first Trillionaires w/ Drones + AI and Machine Learning? w/ CEO Mike Winn · May 31, 2017 · at 6:43
DroneDeploy CEO Mike Winn explains their product strategy and choice to avoid hardware manufacturing to host Nathan Latka.
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“No, we just do software. It's really hard to do. It's really hard to build a great software company.”
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