Life is short. Skeptics are probably right more often than they are wrong, but they also don't go on epic adventures or get to work on projects that move humanity forward. Ignore the skeptics and build the future!
Ten years ago today, Zipline made the world’s first lifesaving drone delivery in Rwanda.
Three million deliveries later, more than 60,000 lives have been saved. Meet the people on the other end of these deliveries in our new video series, Stories from the Sky.
In early Zipline days, we so heavily optimized for iteration speed. My desk was just past the window in the gray building, not 20 steps from the launcher. We'd regularly test out 10+ new builds of flight software a day. Compile > Install > Fly > Crash > Rebuild > Repeat
We started Zipline on a one-thousand-acre cattle ranch.
We made the test site our HQ. We only moved HQ when the septic tanks couldn't handle 100+ people's worth of flushes each day.
This was my daily commute:
@nhfoley@ethanmckanna will prototype, but the aerodynamic constraints on the pod are insane: it's gotta descend as fast as possible while minimizing fluttering, ascend just as fast, and fly forward through v high winds
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