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How We Hit 1M Drone Delivery | Zipline, Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Keenan Wyrobek
Zipline is transforming the delivery landscape with its advanced drone technology. Recently, Zipline achieved a significant milestone, reaching 1 million deliveries and accumulating 75 million autonomous miles. In this interview, cofounders Keller Rinaudo Cliffton and Keenan Wyrobek share their journey, including how they secured their first customer, the Health Ministry of Rwanda. They also discuss the vital role hardware companies play in building the future.00:50 Nerds United with Big Mission 03:59 Building Drone Delivery From Scratch08:21 Hardware, Game Changer of the Future09:51 Fall in love with...2025-07-1213 min
The Limitless PodcastZipline: The Drone Delivery Company that Saves Lives & Beat Amazon | Keller Rinaudo ClifftonIn this episode, Co-founder and CEO Keller Renaudo discusses Zipline's groundbreaking work in autonomous logistics, highlighting their achievement of over 1.4 million deliveries of critical supplies like blood and vaccines, all while operating a fleet that has flown over 100 million miles. With a mission to make logistics ten times faster, half the cost, and emission-free, Zipline started by addressing healthcare needs in Rwanda, significantly impacting maternal mortality rates.Keller shares the strategic decision to focus initially on blood delivery, likening it to Amazon's early niche. The conversation also covers Zipline's expansion into grocery delivery and the challenges of...2025-06-161h 02
Bold NamesHow Zipline’s Drones Are Taking Off in the U.S. and Rivaling AmazonAfter flying 100 million miles and making over 1.4 million deliveries using autonomous drones, Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo Cliffton is looking to transform how same-day delivery works in the U.S. His company has spent years shipping medical supplies across countries like Rwanda, Ghana and Kenya. But will Zipline become a household name by flying burritos and salads to backyards in the U.S.? And how is the startup competing with tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet? Cliffton speaks to WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins on the latest episode of the Bold Names podcast.
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Core MemoryKeller Rinaudo Cliffton on Zipline's Drone Delivery Journey from Blood to BurritosA few weeks ago, I went out to Zipline’s test facility in Half Moon Bay, California for a dinner and to see their delivery drones in action. I was not expecting much. It feels like we’ve been promised delivery drones for years and years. And, in fact, we have. These visions of the future don’t always arrive on schedule, but the delivery drones were feeling extra tardy. I also wasn’t even sure if delivery drones made that much sense. Drones run loud. They could obviously crash into things. It’s hard to imagine...2025-01-261h 03
Bold NamesHow Drones Are Bringing Emergency Services to Remote PlacesAutonomous aviation is making medical aid more accessible and emergency response time shorter than ever. In this conversation from WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival in May, GoAERO CEO Gwen Lighter and Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton share how their respective companies are looking for ways to revamp medical access in hard to reach places. They tell WSJ’s Alex Ossola about the new industry they are forging without a roadmap.
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2024-12-0622 min
Moonshots with Peter DiamandisThe Company Competing With Amazon for Instant Delivery w/ Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | EP #117In this episode, Keller and Peter discuss the future of drone delivery, how to use geographic arbitrage as an entrepreneur, and the story behind Zipline. Recorded on July 23rd, 2024Views are my own thoughts; not Financial, Medical, or Legal Advice.
02:47 | Zipline's Journey to $4 Billion
23:06 | Revolutionizing Blood Logistics in Rwanda
59:42 | Revolutionary Teleportation Technology Near Completion
Keller Clifton is a leading robotics entrepreneur and co-founder of Zipline, a drone delivery company with the most significant autonomous logistics and delivery system at half the costs with zero emi...2024-08-291h 41
5 Year Frontier#2: Drone networks, Earth’s autonomous logistics system, disrupting eCommerce giants, and the future of delivery w/ Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo ClifftonThe 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...2023-11-0726 min
How I Built This with Guy RazDelivering the future in drones with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton of ZiplineKeller Rinaudo Cliffton thinks we’re already experiencing the technology of tomorrow, just that it’s not evenly distributed...About a decade ago, Keller transformed his smartphone robot company into Zipline, which today orchestrates on-demand drone deliveries all over the world. Zipline got its start delivering critical medical supplies to hospitals in Rwanda: a testament to Keller’s belief that innovation is already improving lives outside the U.S.This week on How I Built This Lab, Keller recounts the ongoing and often challenging development of Zipline’s delivery drones. Plus, how Zipline is now chasing...2023-07-1338 min
FYI - For Your InnovationRevolutionizing Logistics with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton
Reducing complexity, increasing speed, enhancing the user interface, reducing costs, reducing waste, enhancing equality, and saving lives; this is the mission of Zipline. Today on the show, we are joined by Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, the co-founder of the company on a mission to provide the world with an autonomous drone logistics system that is incomparable to any other delivery service on the planet. Despite the enormous amount of skepticism they were up against, Keller and his team chose to turn science fiction into reality. Through delivering blood to hospitals in Rwanda, Zipline has been able to reduce the maternal...2023-06-0850 min
Leadership NextWill Drone Delivery Go Mainstream?Zipline is the world’s largest commercial drone delivery system. Since the company’s founding in 2014, Zipline’s autonomous electric aircrafts have delivered hundreds of thousands of packages to people around the world. It's planning to complete 1 million deliveries by the end of 2023. Most of the packages the Zips have delivered include vital items like medicine, vaccines and PPE. Zipline's first distribution center opened in Rwanda in 2016 and it has since expanded into Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Japan, and the U.S.Keller Rinaudo Cliffton is Zipline's co-founder and CEO. In today's episode of Leadership Next, Rinaud...2023-03-2136 min
No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | StartupsFounder Stories: What’s behind the largest commercial autonomous system on earth? With Zipline’s Keller Rinaudo ClifftonThis is a special bonus episode from our Founder Stories series, where entrepreneurs share the story of their startup journey.A delivery with Zipline is the closest thing we have to teleportation. It sounds like science fiction, but Zipline delivers life saving medical supplies such as blood and vaccines to hospitals, doctors and people in need around the world with the world's largest autonomous drone network.This week on the podcast, Sarah Guo talks to Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, about building a full-stack business that involves software, hardware and operations...2023-02-2046 min
Investors' ChroniclePartner Content: Why the sky’s the limit for Zipline’s delivery dronesSupplying life-saving medical supplies by robotic flights in Africa is just the start. Zipline’s co-founder Keller Rinaudo Cliffton talks to Scottish Mortgage manager Tom Slater about what’s next. -Invest in Progress is a podcast brought to you by the Scottish Mortgage Team. It offers a backstage pass to the conversations that occur between our managers and visionary leaders solving some of the world’s most complex problems. Listen to more episodes here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-02-1641 min
Invest in ProgressZipline: why the sky's the limit for delivery dronesWe talk to Zipline about building the world logistics system of the future.In this episode, Zipline's founder Keller Rinaudo Cliffton talks to Scottish Mortgage's manager Tom Slater. They discuss the benefits of working in Africa; how a mission can give a company its competitive edge; and their vision for approximating teleportation with instant delivery.Founded in 2014, Zipline’s first contract was with the government of Rwanda to deliver blood to its hospitals. Since then it’s expanded to Ghana, Japan, Nigeria, and the US, and moved beyond medical supplies to everyday shopping and groceries. Whil...2023-01-1841 min
First Move with Julia ChatterleyFeature interview: Zipline CEO Keller RinaudoIn 2016 Rwanda partnered with drone delivery company Zipline to deliver blood across the country. At the end of last year Zipline announced a $61 million deal to expand the partnership. Joining us today to discuss is Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton.
Also on today's show: Invesco Global Market Strategist Brian Levitt gives us his take on what investors can expect in 2023. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices2023-01-0347 min
TEDTalks 儿童与家庭Keller Rinaudo: 基于智能手机的迷你机器人 | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton对你而言，智能手机可能就像你的朋友。但是真正的朋友会时不时给你一个笑脸。在TED2013大会上 Keller Rinaudo 展示了 Romo，一种由智能手机控制的迷你机器人，可以陪着你散步，可以帮你在桌子上运送一杯咖啡，也可以根据可编程的表情来回应你。2013-04-0905 minTEDTalks Crianças e FamíliaKeller Rinaudo: Um mini robô -- controlado pelo seu telefone | Keller Rinaudo ClifftonSeu smartphone pode parecer um amigo -- mas um amigo verdadeiro lhe daria um sorriso de vez em quando. No TED2013, Keller Rinaudo demonstra o Romo, o mini robô controlado pelo smartphone que pode se ir com você em uma caminhada, lhe passar uma xícara de café pela mesa, e interagir com você com expressões programáveis.2013-04-0905 minTEDTalks Niños y FamiliaKeller Rinaudo: Un minirobot, accionado por su iPhone | Keller Rinaudo ClifftonSu teléfono inteligente se puede sentir como un amigo, pero un verdadero amigo le sonríe de vez en cuando. En TED2013, Keller Rinaudo muestra a Romo, el minirobot accionado por un teléfono inteligente que puede acompañarle en un paseo, deslizarle una taza de café en la mesa y reaccionar con sus expresiones programables.2013-04-0905 minTEDTalks Vie familialeKeller Rinaudo : Un mini robot -- alimenté par votre téléphone | Keller Rinaudo ClifftonVotre smartphone peut sembler convivial -- mais un véritable ami vous ferait un sourire de temps à autre. À TED2013, Keller Rinaudo fait la démonstration de Romo, le mini-robot alimenté par iPhone qui peut vous accompagner en roulant, vous apporter une tasse de café de l'autre côté de la table, et interagir avec vous avec des expressions programmables.2013-04-0905 minTEDTalks 子どもと家族ケラー・リナウド 「あなたの携帯をパーソナル・ロボットに変える発明」 | Keller Rinaudo Clifftonあなたのスマート・フォンは、お友だちのように感じられるかもしれないけど、本当の友だちなら、時々微笑みかけてくれなきゃ。TED 2013で、ケラー・リナウドがRomoというスマート・フォンで動くミニ・ロボットを披露します。そのロボットは、あなたが歩くと一緒に動き、コーヒーを取ってくれ、プログラムもできる表情で、あなたに応えてくれます。2013-04-0905 minTEDTalks Дети и СемьяКеллер Ринаудо: Мини-робот, работающий от вашего телефона | Keller Rinaudo ClifftonВаш смартфон может быть вам другом, но настоящий друг должен вам иногда улыбаться. На конференции TED2013 Келлер Ринаудо демонстрирует Romo, мини-робота, управляемого смартфоном, который может пойти с вами на прогулку, пододвинуть чашку кофе на столе, и реагировать на вас программируемым поведением.2013-04-0905 minTED Talks Kids and FamilyA mini robot -- powered by your phone | Keller Rinaudo ClifftonYour smartphone may feel like a friend -- but a true friend would give you a smile once in a while. At TED2013, Keller Rinaudo Cliffton demos Romo, the smartphone-powered mini robot who can motor along with you on a walk, slide you a cup of coffee across the table, and react to you with programmable expressions.2013-04-0905 minTEDTalks 아동과 가족켈러 리나도(Keller Rinaudo): 스마트폰으로 움직이는 작은 로봇 | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton여러분의 스마트폰이 친구처럼 느껴질 수 있습니다. 하지만 진짜 친구는 가끔씩 여러분을 향해 미소를 짓지요. TED2013에서 켈러 리나도는 로모를 시연해 보입니다. 스마트폰으로 구동되는 작은 로봇은 여러분이 걸을 때 함께 움직일 수 있고, 테이블 건너편으로 커피 한 잔을 가져다 줄 수도 있고, 프로그래밍이 가능한 감정들로 여러분에게 반응하기도 합니다.2013-04-0905 min