[g_airborne]

Zipline is such an awesome company. I love that their largest target market is Africa. Almost every high-tech startup starts with conquering the US en EU markets even though double-digit growth of economies is now mostly happening in emergent markets. It’s one of many interesting points touched upon in Hans Roslings last book (Factfulness - a must read!) and here we have a company that did exactly that. And they are doing it with such cool technology as well!

[maxerickson]

They are doing high value deliveries in low infrastructure environments.

I live in a rural region in the US and can pretty much drive anywhere within 50 miles in about an hour, with hundreds of pounds of whatever. There's no market for slightly faster deliveries of 3 pounds.

[baybal2]

> Almost every high-tech startup starts with conquering the US en EU markets even though double-digit growth of economies is now mostly happening in emergent markets.

I would inject a healthy dose of scepticism here.

To the chagrin of American HN readers, I'd say that while the total digits are incomparable, the number of technical enterprises is certainly bigger outside of USA. Most of those companies can't find a single reason why they have to be in USA.

USA technology sector is overcrowded, and overfunded, and I am not the only one person around who can make this observation.

[pkaye]

> Zipline is an American medical product delivery company headquartered in South San Francisco, California that designs, builds, and operates drone aircraft.

Looks like they are headquartered in US though.