

The Company Competing With Amazon for Instant Delivery w/ Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | EP #117
49 snips Aug 29, 2024
Join Keller Clifton, a robotics entrepreneur and co-founder of Zipline, as he dives into the future of drone delivery. He shares the transformative impact of Zipline on blood logistics in Rwanda, improving emergency medical response times. Keller discusses how geographic arbitrage fuels innovation and the lessons learned from a decade-long entrepreneurial journey. With exciting advancements in drone technology and the upcoming teleportation project, the conversation illustrates how cutting-edge solutions are reshaping global healthcare and delivery systems.
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Zipline's Initial Success Rate
- Initially, Keller Rinaudo Clifton estimated Zipline's success rate at less than 10%.
- Despite low odds, he believed building crucial infrastructure for humanity was worth the risk.
Zipline's Achievements
- Despite a low initial success estimate, Zipline achieved a valuation exceeding $4 billion.
- They've completed over 1.1 million autonomous deliveries and covered 80 million miles.
Future of Logistics
- Instant, automated logistics will be 10x faster and cheaper than current methods, serving all people equally.
- This could change ownership, as teleporting items eliminates the need to store rarely used possessions.