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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast.

We're continuing our annual Thanksgiving series with a ongoing series around good business

doing good.

And in this episode, we're featuring drones for health care delivery in Africa and

beyond.

This episode is based on a conversation from our most recent A6NZ Z summit event, featuring Zipline, CEO and co-founder

Keller Renato, and John Mena, VP of Healthcare Strategy at UPS, in conversation with Chris Dixon.

Thanks for being here. Keller, do you want to start by talking a little about what you're doing

in Zipline? Sure. We build a system that is basically instant delivery. Thanks for being here. Keller, do you want to start by talking a little bit about what you're doing at the point?

Sure.

We build a system that is basically instant delivery for health care.

We make it possible for governments to deliver medicine instantly to people who live in hard-to-reach locations.

The company is currently operating in Rwanda.

We deliver blood to about half of the transfusing facilities in Rwanda. Rwanda delivers

about 55,000 units of blood a year. 50% of that is going toward moms right after giving birth,

and 30% is going toward kids under the age of five who have anemia due to malaria. So the company is

now basically delivering blood instantly to people who couldn't get access to it

before. John, can you tell us a little bit about what you work on?

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