Caroline Hyde

going to use them for?

What's the scale of those launches at first, right?

When I shared some of the data that you've put out there on X, there was a lot of interest on the rate of expansion.

The headline is 2 million deliveries.

But if you think about what we're talking about, last mile delivery, that's a tiny fraction of what a delivery van will do.

How real is this?

There is a lot of interest in this particular funding round because some of the names involved are the hallmarks of a pre-IPO round, some anchor or tenant investors.

Is that a fair assumption to make?

Keller, those regulatory changes you were talking about were the president's EO in June and then later in the summer, the line of sight rules, right?

This is all in the context of...

The president's focus on this is a national security priority.

I hope this question doesn't shock you, but how is Zipline thinking about literally weaponizing the technology, its use in defense use cases, conversations with the president?

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