Zipline
A drone delivery company that started delivering blood supplies in Rwanda and now operates with Walmart for consumer deliveries.
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How Zipline compares
4 creators weighed in
Amazon
Direct rival
e-commerce and drone delivery company
Both are scaling drone delivery at the same time. Peter says Amazon's drone program has faced regulatory delays; Zipline is already expanding to over 1 million deliveries a day.
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Both are scaling drone delivery at the same time. Peter says Amazon's drone program has faced regulatory delays; Zipline is already expanding to over 1 million deliveries a day.
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"Zipline announced that they are scaling to provide Uber Eats with more than 1 million autonomous deliveries per day. I guarantee you when that becomes available, I'm going to be using that all the time. Every day."
Compared to Amazon's in-house drone delivery which has been delayed for regulatory reasons
"The whole industry is there as kind of our sales, Zipline, Google, Amazon, we're all throttling up at the same time because of that regulatory kind of change that's happened."
Listed alongside Google and Amazon as industry competitors scaling simultaneously
DoorDash
Direct rival
food delivery app
Jason says DoorDash is building its own drone system as a direct response to Zipline's drone delivery push.
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Jason says DoorDash is building its own drone system as a direct response to Zipline's drone delivery push.
"I did an SPV and a late-stage investment in Zipline since I missed it as an angel investor when they were delivering blood with fixed-wing systems. Zipline is putting — literally adding to those drive-through Starbucks a place for their ..."
DoorDash building its own drone system as a direct response to Zipline
"We know quite well MANA for instance and we know quite well Google Wing and even some people at Zipline. It's another segment. What I usually say is a drone is like a vehicle with wheels between a motorcycle and a 44 tons."
Smaller scale than Iona's cargo focus, more like 'new DoorDash'
What creators say
"Zipline is another one. They were completely automated, all AI driven everything — from the battery optimization to the routes and everything — and they were delivering blood to refugees, started in Africa and then elsewhere in the world. That's a..."
More from Ali Ghodsi →"I really loved the deal. I love Zipline and all the innovation they've managed to do there."
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"Zipline announced that they are scaling to provide Uber Eats with more than 1 million autonomous deliveries per day. I guarantee you when that becomes available, I'm going to be using that all the time. Every day."
More from Peter Diamandis →"Zipline just did a partnership with Uber. I'm an investor in both of those companies obviously and they are going to do a million deliveries a day."
More from Jason Calacanis →+2 more mentions from Jason
"I did an SPV and a late-stage investment in Zipline since I missed it as an angel investor when they were delivering blood with fixed-wing systems...."
"We were able to do zipline and we put a small ticket size into zipline as well because if you can take the delivery cost down from $15 to five and ..."
"We talked to Zipline here on the show. I feel like they've kind of proven early scale."
More from This Week in Startups →"I love Zipline. Evan Rogers Keller is amazing at Zipline."
More from Alana Palmo →"The whole industry is there as kind of our sales, Zipline, Google, Amazon, we're all throttling up at the same time because of that regulatory kind of change that's happened."
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"I think what Keller and Zipline is doing is really interesting. We've done some early work with them looking at it."
More from TBPN →"We know quite well MANA for instance and we know quite well Google Wing and even some people at Zipline. It's another segment. What I usually say is a drone is like a vehicle with wheels between a motorcycle and a 44 tons."
More from Etienne Lou →"when we were building Zipline 2013, again, we're like the unpopular kid sitting out in the cold"
More from Keller Cliffton →+1 more mention from Keller
"We delivered blood to the roof of a hospital. It was like this life-saving blood transfusion we were supposed to be delivering. And we were always ..."
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