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And believe it or not, I got the first ever pitch for what they were doing in 2015 in Rwanda while reporting a story for Fortune. They've expanded into Ghana, Nigeria, but also now in Japan, and in the U.S. Initially, they were delivering vital items like medicine and vaccines and personal protective equipment to people in remote African villages, which was a great way to test the concept. I've been watching this company for almost a decade. Since the company's founding in 2014, Zipline's autonomous electric aircrafts, smartly called 'Zips,' have delivered hundreds of thousands of packages to people around the world, and it's planning to complete 1 million deliveries by the end of 2023.

He's the founder and CEO of Zipline, the world's largest commercial drone delivery system. Our guest today is equally zippy, but actually might be changing the world. I'm here with Ellen McGirt, my co-host, who just keeps getting better and better and better. Welcome to Leadership Next, the podcast about the changing rules of business leadership. TranscriptĪlan Murray: Leadership Next is powered by the folks at Deloitte, who, like me, are super focused on how CEOs can lead in the context of disruption and evolving societal expectations.

#Zipline drone stock symbol full#

Listen to the episode or read the full transcript below. Later, Fortune senior writer Jessica Mathews joins Murray and McGirt to talk about the state of the drone delivery market and, even more importantly, where it's going. Their wide-ranging conversation covers: the reasons Zipline launched by partnering with countries that are 'consistently underestimated' the company's new home delivery technology and, according to Cliffton, why 'the way we solve humanity-scale problems is with engineering and technology.' On this week’s episode of Fortune‘s Leadership Next podcast, co-hosts Alan Murray and Ellen McGirt talk with Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton about building the largest commercial drone delivery system in the world.