#2: Drone networks, Earth’s autonomous logistics system, disrupting eCommerce giants, and the future of delivery w/ Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

The future of drones and the autonomous logistics. We cover topics including teleporting life saving medicine, installing buildings with drone portals, challenging the centralized power of eCommerce platforms and what our world will look like when drone delivery goes mainstream.

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton is co-founder and CEO of Zipline, a drone company that operates the world’s largest automated on-demand delivery service. A global leader, they are active in seven countries including the US, Japan and across Africa, where it has had huge humanitarian impact. Zipline has completed 10x the number of autonomous miles of the rest of the industry combined! Almost every minute Zipline makes a delivery ranging from vaccines (over 13M delivered), blood, and increasingly common goods. With over 1,000 employees Zipline is backed by leading investors including Sequoia, A16Z and Google. Keller is a software engineer, Harvard grad and professional rock climber.

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