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This Week in Startups · 2026-01-21 · 64 min · 13,718 words

From Blood Transfusions to Burritos, How Zipline is Automating Delivery | E2238

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Literally the way we describe this to our customers is we are showing up and we are installing a magical portal in the wall of your building. Like it's like Rick and Morty or a Stargate. And now anybody in that building, whether it's a a hospital or a primary care facility or a Walmart or a restaurant, just walk directly to the wall. you know put something in a box pass it through the magical portal and it's teleported directly to the home that it needs to go to in a way that is ultra fast great for the environment and amazing customer experience it's designed to be able to serve 99.9% of homes in a way that is quiet magical works in all weather can operate 247 we're now delivering to public areas so it's not just delivering to people's homes like you can be at a little league game and you can be like oh you know what I want to get like cupcakes for the kids because we won and people will just like place the order and five minutes later the product is being delivered to the GPS coordinates of your phone.

It's really magical. And getting something delivered in, you know, three to five minutes or, you know, 15 minutes rather than like 45 minutes or an hour, it feels like teleportation to people and it opens up a ton of new use cases. This weekend's startups is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash twist, then promote it to get access to LinkedIn Jobs new AI assistant, Crusoe Cloud. Crusoe is the AI factory company.

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