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Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

@KellerRinaudo

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Founder and CEO @Zipline . Previously, built DNA/RNA computers and climbing walls. Harvard grad. Ex-professional rock climber.

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2010
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1 year
Phew, crazy 24 hours. In case you missed it, @Zipline just announced our new home delivery service. We are reinventing instant delivery to make it 7x as fast as cars, less expensive, and zero-emission.
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@KellerRinaudo
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@Zipline now making long range autonomous deliveries of COVID products to hospitals in the US every day. Honestly wasn’t sure I’d ever see this
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@KellerRinaudo
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First delivery of blood to a hospital
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@KellerRinaudo
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4 months
Today @Walmart announced that it is partnering with @Zipline to provide drone delivery to millions of households in #Dallas .
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Whoa, @zipline just made the first beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight using onboard perception in US history. We were told a few days ago by a respected reporter they thought this wouldn’t happen for ten years and it happened two days later 😅
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@KellerRinaudo
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A few hours ago, @zipline passed 500k autonomous flights delivering crucial products to our customers. The team has flown about 36 million paid autonomous miles, 10-100x the scale of most of the big autonomous car companies. That’s 75x round trips to the moon! 🚀🌓
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@KellerRinaudo
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Big news: Zipline has signed a $61m partnership renewal with @RwandaGov , our first customer ever! We are dramatically scaling our automated logistics service in the country and Rwanda is also becoming an investor in Zipline.
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Everyone at @zipline is proud to finally share what we've been building over the last year. Our new product is the fastest delivery drone in the world, and will allow our distribution centers to go from 50 to 500 deliveries per day, saving lives and saving our customers money.
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19 autonomous aircraft out making deliveries of medical products simultaneously this morning in Rwanda
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@KellerRinaudo
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Zipline just completed first commercial flight in the US!
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@KellerRinaudo
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Zipline is expanding rapidly in Rwanda. We just had 7 autonomous aircraft in the air at one time, all delivering blood products to patients throughout the country!
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@KellerRinaudo
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A few days ago, @zipline made its first commercial delivery of blood to a hospital using our radically improved aircraft.
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When we launched the first ⁦ @zipline ⁩ distribution center in Rwanda 4 years ago, we dreamed about flying at night, when patients often have emergency needs. This week we turned on national scale 24/7 delivery. 🚀🌍
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@KellerRinaudo
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Soon, millions of Dallas-Fort Worth residents will be able to get just about anything on their Walmart shopping list delivered in this way.
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@KellerRinaudo
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Another huge milestone today. Nine @zipline aircraft making deliveries for patients simultaneously. The beginning of a new kind of logistics system.
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@KellerRinaudo
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More @zipline aircraft leaving manufacturing facility, bound for US operations
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@KellerRinaudo
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3 years
Work has started. Been here ten minutes and we already have several emergency orders on a Saturday morning
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@KellerRinaudo
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First successful blood delivery from new @zipline distribution center in Kayonza!
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@KellerRinaudo
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Today, @Zipline started service to Butaro hospital, which is the farthest away hospital that we currently deliver to. We’re excited to support the amazing nurses and doctors there
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@KellerRinaudo
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So freaking cool to have one of the best science explainers of all time, @MarkRober , hang out at Zipline and visit our global distribution centers. Video came out a few minutes ago!!
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@KellerRinaudo
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Aerial view of an autonomous delivery heading out from our first US distribution center. Still blows my mind!
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A huge moment for @zipline . Receiving our first stocks of a wide variety of medical products beyond blood. Vaccines, oxytocin, antivenin. Lots of announcements coming up in the next few weeks
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@KellerRinaudo
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The FAA just made a landmark decision that is going to change the future of drone delivery in the U.S. Until now, drone delivery companies in the U.S. have been required to have visual observers, stationed on the ground along routes, staring at the sky during a delivery... (1/5)
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@KellerRinaudo
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I continue to be blown away by what the Rwanda @zipline team has accomplished over the last 18 months. They are leading the world and saving lives.
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@KellerRinaudo
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@Zipline just made its 1,000,000th autonomous delivery to a customer. 10 years ago experts told me drone delivery wasn't possible, would never be allowed anywhere, and no one would ever pay for it. Turns out it is possible and people love it.
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@KellerRinaudo
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Zipline has some big announcements to share next week. Until then, here's our kickass new deployments team setting up our first cold-weather distribution center in North Dakota. @Zipline is not a fancy place to work
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By popular request, here’s aerial video of a Zip returning home after a delivery in Charlotte, NC.
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@KellerRinaudo
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Zipline delivers to thousands of health facilities serving millions of people across multiple countries. It took us 3.5 years to reach 100,000 products delivered. It’s taken just 3.5 months to reach 200,000. Our work has only just begun.
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@KellerRinaudo
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Delivery volume across @zipline distribution centers has increased by 18+% every month since pandemic began. Just passed 120x around equator of earth. Requires simultaneous launch and recovery, like this
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@KellerRinaudo
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We’re super excited to share this news. One step closer to building an instant automated delivery system that serves all humans equally.
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@KellerRinaudo
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A few minutes ago, @zipline made our first flight from our brand new distribution center in Eastern Rwanda. We’re excited to add new hospitals to the network over the coming weeks! Thanks to our amazing partners @RwandaHealth @RDBrwanda and @RwandaCAA
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@KellerRinaudo
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On Friday, Zipline signed a partnership with Maharashtra, one of the most dynamic and innovative states in India, to build 12 distribution centers and serve 130m people. So excited to be working with to @CMOMaharashtra , @SerumInstIndia , @AyushmanNHA
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@KellerRinaudo
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@zipline has drastically improved flight behaviors and systems around landing as volume has scaled. Team now recovers planes every 75 seconds
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@KellerRinaudo
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Pascaline joined @zipline 9 months ago in battery manufacturing. She was super ambitious, learned flight operations, became maintenance technician, and is now an air traffic controller. Pretty good first year on the job!
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@KellerRinaudo
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@zipline launched the largest commercial autonomous system on earth in Ghana last week, which will serve 2,000 hospitals and 12m people. It was a profound experience, so I wanted to share some pictures
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Really excited that one of the most inspiring leaders in all of global public health, Bono, is joining @zipline board. Let’s bend the moral arc a little further together
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@KellerRinaudo
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The whole @zipline team is honored to serve Nigeria and deliver COVID vaccine to rural areas. Thanks to @GovKaduna and @AMBaloni for giving us this opportunity to save lives and expand access
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@KellerRinaudo
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It was an honor to spend time with @PaulKagame , @cakamanzi and @RaymondChambers this week. We are starting to think about how Rwanda can be a role model for the rest of the world in instant delivery and universal healthcare access.
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@KellerRinaudo
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Customer feedback @zipline
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@KellerRinaudo
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Tony Hsieh was the person who inspired me to become an entrepreneur. I read Delivering Happiness after graduating from school (lived in same dorm as him, 14 years later). I cold emailed him when I was in Vegas. Tony was the first investor who believed in me
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Zipline’s first night of commercial deliveries in the US
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We’re on track to double the total number of hospitals and health facilities that Zipline serves every month for the next 6 months. It’s time to scale
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@KellerRinaudo
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Early morning at Zipline’s third distribution center in Ghana, which uses autonomous aircraft to serve almost 300 hospitals and health facilities in the northernmost and hardest to reach part of the country
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@KellerRinaudo
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Rwanda team achieved a total delivery time (from order placed to lifesaving product delivered) of twelve minutes today. The future of logistics is instant delivery
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@KellerRinaudo
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Construction of Zipline’s 3rd distribution center in Ghana is almost complete. Happy Thanksgiving 🙏🏽
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@KellerRinaudo
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One of Zipline’s distribution centers had 16 aircraft flying simultaneously today. This was under test conditions, but we’ll be rolling out to all our global distribution centers in next few weeks so that we can serve more patients from each
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First commercial flight of our new delivery vehicle in Rwanda yesterday. This will be a big enabler for scaling to serve 100m people over the coming year. So proud of @zipline team ❤️❤️❤️
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Zipline began the world’s first autonomous delivery service of COVID-19 samples to hospitals across Ghana a few days ago. This is allowing patients in rural areas to receive diagnoses in a few hours rather than days.
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New fleet of Zips ready to start saving lives at second @zipline distribution center
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Sunset recovery in Kayonza
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@KellerRinaudo
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@zipline launched our commercial service in Japan this week! We’re partnering with @toyotatsusho to deliver a wide variety of medical products across the Goto Islands.
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@KellerRinaudo
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At @zipline bright and early, on the way to 600k autonomous deliveries. Every plane is an aircraft in the real world…
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Zipline’s first moon base or North Dakota-1?
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@KellerRinaudo
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Successful first flight at brand new @zipline distribution center in Mampong, Ghana 🇬🇭 . 2 more coming by end of year
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@KellerRinaudo
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Night flights. We’re now operating 24/7 from most distribution centers.
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Today we added two new hospitals to @zipline instant delivery network in Rwanda: Gahini and Rwinkwavu. Soon, we’ll be transitioning to adding primary care facilities!
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@KellerRinaudo
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We’re delivering to our first health centers in Ghana and will eventually serve over 1,800 of them here
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@KellerRinaudo
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We were happy to host another group of young Rwandan engineers today at one of @zipline 's distribution centers!
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@KellerRinaudo
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The @zipline team gave a tour to many of our neighbors today. I predict some of them are going to be team members at some point in the future...
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Second @zipline distribution center in Rwanda, which will be operational soon
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Ready to serve
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Cold weather testing for next-gen delivery platform.
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New autonomous aircraft arriving in Rwanda to support new hospitals that are being added to the @zipline network
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Zip coming home seconds before a huge storm opened up on the distribution center
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Testing for scaled night operations. @zipline fleet looks like UFOs in the background
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@KellerRinaudo
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Incredible progress by the @zipline route planning team, which is now adding record numbers of hospitals and health facilities to our network every month. I think they are just getting started
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Another fleet of autonomous aircraft being loaded up to go to Ghana distribution centers. Official launch of service in the next 6 weeks or so.
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@KellerRinaudo
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Busy Saturday at Zipline’s distribution center in Mampong, Ghana. 25 deliveries before 10am!
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@KellerRinaudo
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@zipline test site is rapidly validating all new SW/HW systems for the next gen home delivery service. Here's first multi-vehicle deconfliction flight (paths are set for vehicles to collide)
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People often ask if Zips can fly in any weather. When a patient needs a transfusion, we fly no matter what.
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@zipline is honored to partner with Pfizer to engineer new ways of safely and equitably delivering Covid-19 vaccine at multi-national scale. We're excited to support one of the most important missions for humanity in 2021
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Cold weather testing continues 🥶
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@KellerRinaudo
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Excited to be back in Rwanda! The distribution center here is hitting new delivery records on a weekly basis. Here is Zip flying into storm
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@KellerRinaudo
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The heart and soul of @zipline
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First day at @zipline distribution center in Ghana, and we achieved a record number of flights!
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Calm morning at Rwanda-1, Zipline’s first distribution center ever
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All of this progress is possible because we have been operating an automated logistics system at national scale for the last 18 months, delivering over 20% of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside the capital. 4,000 commercial deliveries done by an amazing team
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Last week, @zipline released a software update that allows our distribution centers to launch and recover aircraft simultaneously. Gives a sense for the scale of commercial operations today
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The @zipline team is getting very excited to show the world what we’ve been working on for the last year. Announcement is next week. We may or may not have had a successful first flight of this new product in Rwanda today
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New @zipline fleet ready to serve in Rwanda
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New morning, new distribution center (Kayonza).
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@KellerRinaudo
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How it started and how it’s going
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Hitting new records and making our first deliveries of @Novartis products at new @zipline distribution center in Eastern Rwanda! Three days ahead of schedule
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@KellerRinaudo
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Another day at the office
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Zipline wouldn’t be the company we are today if it weren’t for the visionary leadership of @PaulKagame and @RwandaGov , plus the patient partnership of @RwandaHealth over the last 5 years. Truly proud of what we’ve achieved together and we’re just getting started
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Inspired by a convo with @balajis to talk about regulation. Thesis: under regulation is super visible, while over regulation is invisible
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Excited to finally announce our partnership with the Philippine Red Cross today in Manila. We plan to deliver blood to 40m people across the country. @DickGordonDG is a visionary Red Cross leader
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Now we're back to the day to day grind of operating an autonomous instant delivery system at national scale. We added 7 new hospitals to the @zipline network in Ghana today.
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A big part of scaling successfully means we need to have many vehicles flying simultaneously to meet customer demand. Team just set a new record with ten autonomous Zips out making deliveries from one DC ✈️ ✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️✈️
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Busy Sunday of deliveries at our Rwanda distribution center. We've made some major HW improvements in last few days!
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Finally home at @zipline RW-1, where daily flight volume has approximately doubled since I was last here
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An autonomous Zip returns to @zipline DC after making a delivery to one of the hospitals we serve
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Night operations at a distribution center. A large portion of Zipline is WFH, but a small group of us are doing what’s necessary to continue making deliveries to patients
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One of the hospitals @zipline serves in Ghana made a sign for our delivery area. Zipline is contracted to serve almost 2,000 health facilities in Ghana alone, so maybe we need to mass produce...
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Sunset over Kumasi, where we just broke ground on our second distribution center in Ghana
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By choosing Zipline, they’ll keep cars off the road and CO2 out of the atmosphere. This will make roads safer and cities greener. We’re building a more convenient future so you can spend less time running errands and more time with friends and family.
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3-d printed tail fins
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