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SPEEDAuthor: Peregrine Badger
A show about leaders who move fast. Hosted by Peregrine Badger at Fifty Years. Fifty Years is a venture capital firm backing founders using technology to solve the worlds biggest problems. We back founders working on climate change, health, free speech, affordable housing, and other global problems. When youre working on problems like this, theres a particular sense of urgency. Shipping faster means saving lives, preventing extinctions, and creating a future worth living for. We interview leaders who move fast and ask them what they did and how they did it, with the goal of bringing their strategies and tactics to bear on the worlds biggest problems. Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Keenan Wyrobek, Zipline
Episode 9
Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
Keenan, Keller Rinaudo, and Ryan Oksenhorn cofounded Zipline in 2014 and in 2021 became a $2.75B company that has saved tens of thousands of lives and raised $490M. Zipline now delivers medical supplies in >5 countries to communities of tens of millions of people. In Rwanda, 75% of blood deliveries outside the capital use Zipline. They've overcome flying in storms, deploying 9000 miles away, and managing safety-critical logistics. Hear from Keenan how they've relentlessly iterated to build a novel robotics system that solves an incredibly important problem! If you enjoy our podcast, please share with a friend who'd enjoy too! 👋🏼 Reach Keenan at Zipline: 💻 Web - https://flyzipline.com/ 👥 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/keenanwyrobek/ 👋🏼 Reach Peregrine: Thinking about starting a company? Want to work on something deeply meaningful? Annoyed I say 'like' so much?' Would love to hear from you! 🥳 👥 Linkedin - linkedin.com/in/pbadger/ 🐦 Twitter - twitter.com/PeregrineBadger 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW Enjoyed listening? Consider a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help folks discover the show 😊 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speed/id1649845905
