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Episode 15: Global leaders in Drone Delivery - Manna’s Bobby Healy

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What a pleasure for us to have the great future creating @bobbyhealy of @mannadronedelivery on the purple chairs for a fun and superbly informative chat. The 'purple chair' policy is for an informal, unscripted, and first-take chat so that you guys get a real feel for the person and their passion/business without the tech-heavy narrative! Enjoy, and let us know what you think. Thank you, Bobby!

  • Bobby Healy Manna Delivery intro
  • 2 min 40 seconds average delivery time, 3 miles distance
  • 35,000 population balbriggan
  • 300/400 deliveries a day
  • Coffee and croissants 30/40% of orders
  • Every household used once a week
  • Golden retriever with wings!
  • IAA top 2/3 regulator in Europe
  • Illegal and dangerous to fly if you're not regulated
  • Certified as both an airline and an airline manufacturer
  • Irish government in support
  • Ireland is the epicentre of drone delivery
  • 2nd in the world for drone delivery
  • Overtaken Amazon, who spent 3 billion dollars
  • Ireland has an environment to allow our trials and tests
  • Fast turnarounds with inspections and audits
  • Fast past Commercial grade interaction with government and regulator enables the business.
  • FAA in the USA, with 50,000 employees, must slower to pass legislation - 5 years behind Europe
  • Safety is most important - how do we do a million flights a day without a catastrophic incident
  • Catastrophic incident number - the ratio of catastrophic incidence to flight hours
  • Airbus A-320 ratio is 10 to minus 9, so 1 in a billion hours of flight, there's a catastrophic incident
  • Drones are safer, don't carry people, fly much slower, much lighter, much smaller - won't lead to a death
  • The drone ratio is 10 to the minus 6 - 1 catastrophic incident in 6 million flights
  • Dash, a US delivery company, does 2 billion deliveries yearly - We want to do 10 billion annually!
  • Uber autonomous driving stopped after a lady in Phoenix died
  • 6 years of investment, with 120 people without opening the cash register
  • The benefit of it taking so long to build the safety/business is other companies can't quickly build their own
  • Takes 200 million euros to get to a position where you can be profitable
  • Hardware is a pain in the ass
  • If we have enough money, 90% in our own hands - 10% in regulation and the government's hands
  • 3 kg weight allowance in a drone
  • You can get more than 1, and they fly in formation - a squadron of 5 drones, and an armada of 3 drones
  • Track the aircraft; very cool and tells you when it's outside
  • Pints of Guinness in Oranmore -settles as it flies!
  • Bakery and community impact of drone delivery
  • NPS (Net promoters score) is 86 better than apple
  • Bookshop in Oranmore is better than amazon for delivery times!
  • Enable the local vendor to thrive - compete with the big guy
  • The goal is 2 billion deliveries just for fast food plus pharmacy etc
  • 300 billion industry becomes a trillion

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