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1 Million Drone Deliveries a Day by 2028 | Keller Cliffton, Zipline

Sep 14, 2026 · 41:26

Zipline Co-Founder and CEO Keller Cliffton tells Ti Morse how an Uber Eats partnership demanding 1 million drone deliveries a day within 2.5 years forced Zipline to discard its operating plan six months after setting it. He argues hardware companies are chains of 30 multiplied disciplines where one failure makes the company a zero, producing shifting existential crises from tariffs to maintenance backlogs. Because customers want 'teleportation,' not drones, Zipline is artificially constraining home sign-ups while doubling factory capacity originally sized for 20,000–40,000 aircraft a year—Cliffton needs five times that. He says 5.5 billion annual US instant deliveries could become 55 billion at observed behavior, and closes arguing robotics will 'give the Earth back to humans.'

Sam Altman - How to Start a Startup

Jul 25, 2026 · 1:09:39

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, explains how AI has transformed startup building, arguing that the exponential progress of models and the ability to do more with smaller teams make this an unprecedented time for founders. He describes trusting exponentials, operating in chaotic environments, and learning to enjoy painful experiences as key to resilience. Altman details OpenAI's mission to create abundant, cheap, and decentralized intelligence, with current bottlenecks being transistors and electrons (chips and energy). He shares stories of buying massive compute, the world tour after GPT-4 launch that visited 28 countries in 35 days, shutting down promising projects like Sora to focus on coding agents (Codex), and how he texts 300-400 people daily to maintain context. Altman contrasts real trends (deep enduring usage like ChatGPT) from fake trends (hype without sustained use) and emphasizes that the joint-stock company was a pivotal invention for incentive alignment. He also reflects on Google's failure to capitalize on their AI lead, his own undershooting on compute investments, and the importance of asking for what you want, illustrated by the kamikaze mission that made Codex beat…