Skydio CEO argues more drones will make us safer

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New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil I Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking with Adam Bree, the CEO of Skydio, the leading US maker of autonomous drones. You'll hear us talk about it, but before we recorded this episode, I actually got to remotely operate one of SkyDo's drones in the Bay Area from Adam's laptop in our podcast studio in New York.

I also got to fly an indoor drone around our office. You can check out the full video of all that on our YouTube channel, we'll link it in the show notes. Beyond letting me fly drones around the country, Adam and I talked about whisky is so focused on the enterprise market. I, of course, asked him a lot about working with police and the military, but you'll hear him say that a lot of Scottio's customers are utility companies that use drones to remotely inspect important infrastructure in ways that simply weren't possible before. That's a big and important market, but it's also one that was being serviced by cheap consumer drones in the past.

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