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Martin Garcia

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
122 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

So this is why I decided to join, to study a master's in the UK.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

Specifically for this, and my master thesis is basically the foundation or the core of my business model, which is the automation of the UAV.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

I was 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

I was approximately 28, 29, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

There are advantages and disadvantages.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

One of them is that the regulations for flying UAVs in Mexico are not that harsh, not that strict as in the United States, for example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

That doesn't mean that I can do whatever I want, but I can do some other things that usually are very, very strictly prohibited in the USA.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

Also, there is a lot of potential and opportunities here in Mexico since there are so many operators.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

That doesn't mean that there is no one, but

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

the competition is kind of less hard on you and also the labor and the people that are here are very talented and that means I can build amazing things with not so much money although we do have an investment that doesn't mean that I want to spend it a lot and very quickly right and then in terms of the technology

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

Since UAVs are not that expensive when you know how to build them, this is a project that can be really quickly expanded and a lot of clients are able to afford it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

Unlike, for example, manned aircraft that you have to buy and all rent, which is super extremely expensive and it's not really that scalable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

So this is why UAVs...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

a great opportunity to explore in countries that are... But Martin, how are you going to beat the major players in this space, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

DJI is aiming for commercial consumer products, although they have their... Yeah, but Martin, come on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

And I know that they already have 1,500 developers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

So first of all, one of the things I want to aim as quickly as possible is to work on localized applications and markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
660: Will Farmers Decide First Drone Company Trillionaire?

So I know they are already building technologies that they want to expand everywhere, but they don't know the customers and they don't know exactly what they want.