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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