Alex Wilhelm

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67,402 appearances 274 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 19 Aug

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This Week in Startups · The Drone Company Quietly Taking Over Delivery · 27 May 2026 podcast

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fifty million dollars in series B, it's a lot of money. voice-verified

Uh but I do know that some of your competitors in the US are raising nine figure rounds in the six hundred eight hundred million dollar range. voice-verified

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Do you guys have enough capital to compete if capital has become kind of the the bottleneck to growth as you've described it? voice-verified

I feel like we've buried the lead a little bit here, which is uh the drones that you're using um to actually pull off these deliveries because it seems that if you're going to have such strong contribution margins from, you know, recently deployed drones, they must be super durable. voice-verified

They must be super good at all the things. voice-verified

So talk to me about the the drones that you're using and also what what they bring to the business apart from just kind of the core mechanics of delivery. voice-verified

I I I I agree with everything you just said, especially the point that Southwest used to be good and is now not. voice-verified

I never wanted night coke united. voice-verified

Thank you very much. voice-verified

I wanted Southwest. voice-verified

Which I used to have. voice-verified

Complexity voice-verified

When I think about Ryanair and other kind of like ultra low cost providers, what I think about them is like voice-verified

And I don't even mean this in a rude way, Bobby, but kind of the commoditization of voice-verified

air travel. voice-verified

And so when you're talking about, you know, the importance of efficiency and so forth, to me, it sounds like you're you're you kind of imagine that in time there's going to be quite a lot of companies that can offer drone-based delivery. voice-verified

So you're going to win not by being the flashiest, your you know Tesla example, but instead just being downright the most efficient. voice-verified

So really the right and example is voice-verified

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