A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : LinkedIn: Costa Samaras , Danielle Meister Lurie , and Christopher Mims LinkedIn: Costa Samaras : I led a multi-year research project where we built and flew package delivery drones hundreds of times and measured the energy use. … Danielle Meister Lurie : Zipline is “the drone delivery service beating Amazon to your front door...what cheap, ubiquitous drone delivery could enable is mind-blowing.” … Christopher Mims : 12 years after after Amazon promised it was just around the corner, widespread commercial drone delivery is finally coming to the U.S. …