Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

Extracted Attributes

• Gender

  male

• Vision

  Building a new kind of logistics for the planet, universal access to healthcare, zero-emission last-mile logistics, using American technology to uplift the world

• Education

  AB, Economics and Biotechnology, Harvard University (2005-2009)

• Occupation

  Entrepreneur, Scientist, Professional Rock Climber

• Current Role

  Co-founder & CEO of Zipline

• Date of Birth

  1987-01-01

• Zipline Headquarters Location

  San Francisco Bay Area, US

Timeline

• Began working as a Scientist at Harvard University's Bauer Genomics Lab, building molecular automata and publishing research in Nature Biotechnology. (Source: Structured Data (LinkedIn))

  2005-10-01

• Began studies at Harvard University, earning an AB in Economics and Biotechnology. (Source: Structured Data (LinkedIn))

  2005-09-01

• Concluded work as a Scientist at Harvard University's Bauer Genomics Lab. (Source: Structured Data (LinkedIn))

  2008-10-01

• Graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Economics and Biotechnology. (Source: Structured Data (LinkedIn))

  2009-06-01

• Co-founded Zipline. (Source: Structured Data (LinkedIn))

  2011-07-01

• Zipline began its operations in Rwanda, delivering medical supplies and significantly reducing maternal mortality. (Source: Summary, Structured Data (Related Documents))

  2016-XX-XX

• Zipline began using drones to deliver vaccines, blood, and medicines in Ghana. (Source: Structured Data (Wikipedia))

  2019-04-01

• Zipline's partner Novant Health received a US FAA Part 107 aviation waiver for delivery of medical supplies and PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina. (Source: Structured Data (Wikipedia))

  2020-XX-XX

• Zipline partnered with Walmart for non-medical product deliveries. (Source: Structured Data (Wikipedia))

  2021-XX-XX

• Zipline drones delivered more than 75% of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside of Kigali. (Source: Structured Data (Wikipedia, LinkedIn))

  2021-09-XX

• Zipline partnered with Sweetgreen for non-medical product deliveries. (Source: Structured Data (Wikipedia))

  2023-XX-XX

• Participated in a conversation with Ryan Nolan at Goldman Sachs, discussing Zipline's mission and the complexities of scaling new hardware systems. (Source: Structured Data (Web Search Results))

  2023-05-08

• Zipline drones completed over one million commercial deliveries and flown more than 70 million autonomous miles. (Source: Summary, Structured Data (Wikipedia))

  2024-04-XX

• Presented Zipline's pioneering work in drone delivery at the All-In Summit's Science Corner edition. (Source: Structured Data (Related Documents))

  XXXX-XX-XX

Zipline (drone delivery company)

Zipline International Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures, and operates delivery drones. The company operates distribution centers in the United States, Rwanda, Ghana, Japan, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, and Kenya. As of April 2024, its drones have made more than one million commercial deliveries and flown more than 70 million autonomous miles. The company designs and manufactures its drones, and builds and operates its distribution centers, which also serve as a drone airport. The company's drones deliver whole blood, platelets, frozen plasma, and cryoprecipitate along with medical products, including vaccines, infusions, and common medical commodities. As of September 2021, more than 75 percent of blood deliveries in Rwanda outside of Kigali use Zipline drones. In April 2019 in Ghana, the company began using drones to deliver vaccines, blood, and medicines. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted a Part 107 aviation waiver to Zipline's partner organization Novant Health for the delivery of medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) to medical facilities in North Carolina. The company also offers delivery services for non-medical products, including partnerships with Walmart which started in 2021, and with Sweetgreen which was announced in 2023. Its website features uses for restaurants, groceries, convenience shopping, and e-commerce.

Web Search Results

• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, CEO and Co-founder of Zipline

  # Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, CEO and Co-founder of Zipline In a conversation with Ryan Nolan, managing director in the TMT group and global co-head of Software in Goldman Sachs Investment Banking, Keller Cliffton, CEO and co-founder of Zipline, talks about the company’s mission to reimagine worldwide logistics, the complexities of scaling new hardware systems, and why they launched Zipline’s services in Rwanda first. [...] On being comfortable with failure:“You have to get pretty comfortable with failure because basically, if you’re trying to do something really hard, you might spend a month or you might spend a year just trying again and again and again and failing again and again and again and again… So it really has to be more about the process. You have to derive the fulfillment from the process, not from the success.” This episode was recorded on May 8, 2023 [...] we’ve been pretending for a hundred years like that’s somehow unavoidable or excusable. We felt like it was neither of those things. So we were pretty determined. We felt like there was a chance to build a radically new kind of logistics system for Earth. We wanted to build the first logistics system that would serve all people equally.”

• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton - CEO at Zipline - LinkedIn

  ## Experience ### Co-founder & CEO Zipline July 2011 - Present San Francisco Bay Area We founded Zipline to build a new kind of logistics for the planet. Today, Zipline delivers 70% of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside of Kigali using autonomous aircraft. Our ultimate goal is to put each human on the planet within a 15–30 minute delivery of any essential medical product they need, no matter where they live. [...] # Keller Rinaudo Cliffton CEO at Zipline San Francisco Bay Area, US 500 connections, 6070 followers ## About Working with a brilliant team of engineers, designers, and business people to make robots that will change the world<br><br> [...] ### Scientist Harvard University October 2005 - October 2008 Bauer Genomics Lab Built molecular automata (DNA computers) that can be manufactured by human cells and can perform calculations based on gene expression on a cell by cell basis. Published the research in Nature Biotechnology, becoming one of the youngest first authors in that publication's history. ## Education ### Harvard University AB, Economics and Biotechnology 2005 - 2009 None ## Publications N/A

• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton - Profile - The Network

  The Network # Keller Rinaudo Cliffton CEO at Zipline San Francisco, CA # Keller Rinaudo Cliffton CEO at Zipline San Francisco, CA ### Overview ### Work Experience Co-founder & CEO Zipline [...] Self-employed Professional rock climber Scientist Harvard University Built molecular automata (DNA computers) that can be manufactured by human cells and can perform calculations based on gene expression on a cell by cell basis. Published the research in Nature Biotechnology, becoming one of the youngest first authors in that publication's history. ### Education AB Harvard University Economics and Biotechnology [...] We founded Zipline to build a new kind of logistics for the planet. Today, Zipline delivers 70% of the national blood supply of Rwanda outside of Kigali using autonomous aircraft. Our ultimate goal is to put each human on the planet within a 15–30 minute delivery of any essential medical product they need, no matter where they live.

• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Founder/CEO Zipline (TRANSCRIPT)

  good at all the different kinds of engineering, right? Whether it's electrical engineering, firmware engineering, software engineering, mechanical engineering, aero aerodynamics, aero acoustics, everything. And then we also have to be really good at operations. Like we have to know how to operate fulfillment centers. We have to ha know how to get regulatory approval in the countries where we operate. We have to know how to do flight operations, we have to do maintenance. [...] actually succeeded at automating logistics and making it serve all people equally and providing universal access to healthcare to every single person on earth and transitioning all of last mile logistics to zero emission. I mean that's, that would be so world changing. Like it's worth it. I think it takes a special kind of person to wanna work on a project that has a 1% chance of success. [...] was a mentor and inspiration to me. I had just read his book. He lived in the exact same dorm I did in college, just 10 years ahead of me. And so seeing what he had built and yeah, I, I didn't even know building a startup was a thing that you could do. And

• Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Speaker - TED Talks

  # Keller Rinaudo Cliffton ### Why you should listen ## Keller Rinaudo Cliffton’s TED Talks #### Keller Rinaudo Cliffton #### A mini robot — powered by your phone #### Keller Rinaudo Cliffton #### How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives ### Programs & initiatives ### Ways to get TED ### Follow TED ### Our community ### TED Newsletters ### Language Selector TED.com translations are made possible by volunteer translators. Learn more about the Open Translation Project. [...] © TED Conferences, LLC. All rights reserved.

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Harvard University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  entrepreneur

• Date Of Birth

  1/1/1987