If you live outside of a city center, you're going to be getting your burritos and your milk and coffee and your Starbucks delivered to you by a quadcopter in under five minutes in all likelihood.

So please join me in welcoming Keller Clifton from Zipline.

All right, I'm a man.

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I was just thinking, when did you start, and I know you started in Africa delivering blood and medicine, on fixed-wing airplanes?

Yeah?

Yeah, we, I started the company technically in 2011. I was a year out of college.

We really started building everything that became Zipline in 2013.

You know, we had this simple idea, which was you should be able to build an automated logistics system that could serve all people equally.

We felt like robotics would allow us to build a new kind of logistics system that could be ten times as fast, half the cost, zero emission.

You know, logistics really only serves the golden billion people on Earth well.

So, you know, we can afford to pay Dordash like $15. You're basically like private taxi for your burrito, private car for your burrito. But, you know, in reality, we always felt like the most exciting thing about automating logistics was to make it something that could be universally accessible, that people could use like multiple times a day no matter where you live. For a lot of people in the room who might be starting their own companies or I've already started their own companies. It's 100% of the room. Okay. Awesome. Yeah. I mean, you know, I like, you know, we would talk to investors about this idea and and they'd be like, oh, okay, but isn't this illegal in the U.S.? And we'd be like, yeah, it is. And they'd be like, I think we'll pass.

And it was not only that, but they were like, well, what is your background in this? Like, do you guys know anything about logistics? Do you know anything about health care? Do you know anything about aviation? And we were like, no, we don't know anything about any of those things. And I have this flag over my desk that says, We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought that it would be easy.

And this is definitely like, you know, the definition of Zipline

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