Full Zipline Factory Tour: How a $7.6B Company Builds Drones

[00:00] Welcome to Zipline HQ. You can see we're just about to cross two million total deliveries. All of these aircraft flying around that number, do you want to guess what those are? Active flights. [00:12] Yeah, exactly. Really? Yep. Every one of those aircraft is out making deliveries somewhere in the world. Right now, most of the Africa business is slower. It's like middle of the night Africa time. But if you come in in the morning, you can like barely see that number. There's so many aircraft making deliveries. This whole building, you know, it's been a huge advantage. Sort of similar to, you know, Tesla originally had Fremont, right? They had giant car factory that was right next to engineering for the first several years. We've just been approved by the FAA to now fly one human to 30 aircraft. We'll soon go well in excess of that. Humans aren't really flying [00:42] overseeing a large fleet of autonomous vehicles. [00:47] - My thought, that's pretty advanced. [00:59] Welcome to ZipLine HQ. You can see we're just about to cross 2 million total deliveries. Wow. Yeah, that'll probably happen in the next three or four days. All of these aircraft flying around that number, do you want to guess what those are? [01:11] active flights. [01:12] - Yeah, exactly. - Really? - Yep. So every one of those aircraft is out making delivery somewhere in the world. [01:17] Right now, most of the Africa business is slower. It's like middle of the night Africa time. But if you come in in the morning, you can barely see that number. There's so many aircraft making deliveries. [01:26] Yeah. Let's actually, speaking of seeing aircraft making deliveries, let's go check out The Rock.

[01:30] What's the rock? There's a rock? [01:32] The ROC stands for a Remote Operating Command Center. I thought it was an actual ROC this whole time. You what? I thought it was like an actual ROC this whole time. No, I'm sorry. You guys are like, "Let's go see the ROC." Okay, maybe there's like a-- I mean, we're in California, there's like people who love crystals. Maybe you guys love ROC. Do we seem like the type to be into energy crystals too? Definitely. Really? [01:58] We're an engineering company, Molly. It's the opposite of that. [02:02] Yeah. [02:04] Yeah. [02:05] This is actually kind of a, you know, [02:07] Cool example, by the way, you know, just getting a sense. So yeah, October 10th, that's what that space looked like. Wow. And then December 10th is a completely built out manufacturing facility. [02:16] So this is all of Zipline HQ behind us. [02:20] the zipline is about 1300 people we're about um 800 people in the us and the more than half of those people are engineers everything from electrical engineering firmware engineering [02:31] all different disciplines of software. So all of those teams are what you see behind us. [02:35] Most of this column is actually the autonomy team. [02:38] So responsible for machine learning, [02:41] detect and avoid computer vision, both on the ZIP as well as on the Droid. [02:45] And then behind them is like a system, systems test, [02:50] embedded engineering, mechanical engineering, [02:53] Supplier industrialization engineering. And then over here is... You guys are gonna need a bigger office soon. Yes, in fact, maybe you just saw something that we can't announce yet. But yeah, the zip line is soon gonna be expanding offices. This building actually used to be a Harley Davidson dealership. No way. Yeah, so they would actually do all of the maintenance of the bikes would happen downstairs and then upstairs they like had all the motorcycles. This was like the showroom.

[03:17] What's his job? [03:21] Very friendly. - Aw. Thank you. - Emotional support. - Zipline, it's a lot of tough days-- - It's a camera shot. - Trying to build a company like Zipline. Yeah. [03:30] Come on in. - Okay. [03:32] - Thank you. [03:33] you can help us have three assessments. [03:34] Thank you. [03:35] This is my desk. This is your desk? Maggie, ZipLine's Chief of Staff. Hi! You're on camera. This is Molly. We have a lot of questions for you. Are you prepared? [03:47] I'm just kidding. So this is mostly like powertrain, electrical engineering, more firmware engineering. This is the safety and reliability team over here. And yeah, if you want, we can go check out The Rock. Let's go check out The Rock. Yeah. [04:03] Yeah. So they get the mandate. [04:05] - Okay. [04:06] Mr. President. [04:07] My dad's a little bit. [04:08] Yeah. [04:09] Um, [04:13] So yeah, ROC stands for Remote Operating Command Center. This team is responsible for all flights happening everywhere in the US. We've just been approved by the FAA to now fly [04:22] one human to 30 aircraft will soon go well in excess of that. But essentially, you know, humans aren't really flying the aircraft. You have a human overseeing a large fleet of autonomous vehicles, if that makes sense. [04:35] You can see we track everything from like uptime to the kind of cohort analysis of how quickly these sites scale. Zipline is now operating about 20 sites in Dallas alone. Each of those sites scales faster and faster. So it took us

[04:52] It took us, I think, about 110 days [04:55] to get our first site to 100 deliveries a day. We now have sites that hit 100 deliveries a day in two days. [05:00] The sites are just scaling way, way faster. In some cities, we have over 50% of homes ordering from Zipline. [05:07] - It's kind of insane. - That's insane. - More than half of all homes ordering from Zipline in some of the cities. - Oh my gosh. [05:15] - Crazy graph. - Yeah, it's pretty cool. We're definitely in the vertical part of the curve. And then if you wanna come a little closer, you can actually see these deliveries happening live. [05:23] Sorcery is brought to you by Brex, the financial stack trusted by more than 30,000 companies, including one in three venture-backed startups in the U.S. Nearly 40% of startups fail because they run out of cash. Brex is literally built to help founders avoid that. Unlike traditional banks that let your money sit idle, chipping away at it with fees, Brex is designed to help you spend smarter and move faster. [05:53] into one powerful account. You can send and receive money globally at lightning speeds, get 20 times the standard FDIC coverage through their partner banks, and even high yield from day one. But same day and even same hour liquidity, access your funds anytime. Companies like Scale AI, DoorDash, Service Titan, HIMSS, Anthropic, Flexport, Robinhood, and Plaid trust and use Brex.

[06:23] So you can actually see, you know, there are, there's one aircraft actually making deliveries. This is in Pea Ridge, Bentonville. So you can see all the different 20 sites are being tracked here. [06:35] And we look in, you know, [06:37] P-Ridge, we can see two deliveries happening right now. So there's a zip, you know, in the [06:42] Northeast there, you can see a zip that's making delivery, now it's on its way back. [06:46] And it also looks like there's a zip that's outbound to make a delivery in the southwest. [06:50] And then as more deliveries come in, [06:53] We'll get to see packages get loaded into these aircraft. [06:56] and then the aircraft take off and go make deliveries. So we might get to see that over the next two or three minutes here. [07:02] You can also see all the other sites and they almost all have deliveries that are happening right now. Yeah, that's a lot over there. Yep, a lot of these sites are, I mean, you know, we're right now [07:12] We're operating sites about 17 hours a day. We're soon going to transition 24/7. [07:18] Um, [07:19] It's kind of insane, you know, just getting to watch the CCTV. And by the way, the system's growing 15% week over week, so it's, you know, [07:26] I'll go like two weeks without coming in, like really like watching The Rock. You come back two weeks later, it looks completely different. Like the system is scaling so fast. [07:34] Almost every two weeks, it's like a completely different level of scale that you can observe by watching these flights. [07:38] So we'll actually get to see here probably in the next... [07:41] 60 seconds, you'll see a zip actually hover down and land into those docks. [07:49] So all of this is controlled by this team. So one central control team.

[07:54] for all aircraft in the US. Actually, sorry, there are two control centers. This is one of them. Oh look, a new delivery was just placed to see how the [08:03] See how the bullseye just appeared? Yeah, now down in the southeast. So that means that a zip has just been given a route. We'll probably see a zip take off here. [08:13] actually see it take off. So yeah, you give it maybe 30 seconds. We'll get, we're probably going to get to see a zip land here and a zip [08:19] Oh yeah, there you go. See? Top right. [08:21] that aircraft is taking off? Oh yeah. [08:23] Thank you. [08:25] Here it goes. [08:28] I don't know. [08:29] Thank you. [08:30] Yeah. [08:33] So it's had its route automatically loaded onto it. Now you can watch it go out and make that delivery to the South Pacific. [08:39] to the southeast. [08:40] There's also a zip that is landing, because we just saw it fly back, right? But we haven't seen it land, so let's watch and we'll see. [08:46] You get to see a zip hover in and land. [08:49] But yeah, I mean, coming over and watching this is honestly, you know, it's a little bit mesmerizing. Because it's like, these systems are just now operating. Do you have like a live feed for the public to watch? Maybe we should. We don't have that today. Because it's like a zoo camera. Yeah, it's probably- I know. You should have a zoo camera. It's not a bad idea. I wonder if there would be- And then put the googly eyes on them. People will have- There, there you go. Look, there's a zip coming in. Oh my god. Oh my god. We're making a delivery. Cool. Um, yeah, we probably should do something like that. It's so fun to watch. Yeah, it's really fun. Like, I would watch it just from home. Yeah. Um, and keep in mind, like, we're watching the CCTV of one of the sites here, where there are 20 other sites that are just cycling. [09:19] playing. [09:19] Yeah, 17 hours a day. Put the googly eyes on them, start naming them, and then all of a sudden you have a zoo. As cute as possible. Yeah, I think it's a good idea. I feel a lot of the powertrain teams are designing everything from

[09:31] battery management systems to the flight computer [09:33] to the power distribution boards, [09:36] And we actually designed the electric motors from scratch. In fact, we can pick one up in a sec. [09:44] What you're looking at is Hiddle, [09:46] HIDL stands for Harder-in-the-Loop Simulator. Zipline has 140 million commercial autonomous miles with zero safety incidents. [09:52] That's hard to do when you're constantly iterating on all the different aspects of software and hardware in the system. Right now, every six weeks, we're doing a major global software update to the entire fleet. [10:02] Typically that'll include like [10:05] 60 bug fixes, 25, 30 performance improvements, plus a lot of major new features. All of that has to be really carefully tested before we put it on an airplane. [10:14] Right? [10:14] And you do not want to find out for the first time that a feature is failing by putting it onto an aircraft and crashing it, even at a test site. [10:22] Every one of these layers is, you can kind of think of it like the brain and nervous system of an airplane. So this is the battery, battery management system, [10:30] cellular antennas, wifi antennas, flight compute, power distribution board, [10:34] the four electric motors, which are designed from scratch by Zipline, [10:37] plus the red motor controller as you can see on top. [10:39] winch motor controller, mix motor controller, [10:43] So the Droid Brain, so this is actually an NVIDIA GPU running on that small cute robot that's actually, you know, controlling its own position when it's delivering to a house. Plus the dock electronics. So that larger board is what's controlling that big hockey puck dock. That's the landing station for the zip. So every one of these layers is an airplane. [11:00] So, and every airplane is connected to a powerful simulator that is simulating a world for that airplane to fly around in. It's kind of like, think of them all as like dreaming, right?

[11:08] So you're surrounded by like 30 aircraft right now. [11:11] They're all flying in the matrix. [11:13] and we'll download all new software onto this fleet. We can cycle through tens of thousands of flights in simulation, running on the actual [11:21] flight avionics itself. [11:23] We can typically catch 90 to 95% of bugs and performance [11:27] software problems here. [11:29] before we then go to the final layer of testing, which is the test site itself, where we're gonna [11:33] deploy onto real aircraft and fly at scale. [11:35] Once we do tens of thousands of flights at the test site and everything's working perfectly, then we can do an over the air global update to the national fleet of that new software version. [11:45] Kind of makes sense. [11:46] - Makes sense. - Yeah. So this is all, you know, kind of, I mean, [11:49] It's in the weeds, but this is a huge part of Zipline's competitive advantage. This kind of infrastructure, this kind of investment in testing and validation, [11:57] is how we [11:59] move at a very high engineering velocity while still deploying a product that's super safe for the neighborhoods that we fly over. [12:04] I feel like I'm in a secret laboratory. Yeah, that's what this is. [12:34] www.sourcery.com.

[12:40] So you're going to kind of see where we're building all of that. This is the current manufacturing line for AB3. So primary structures start here. [12:51] This is all the structural strength. Way to be here. Oh my god! [12:56] It's really like... Try to pull it apart. I can pull it apart. Yeah, try to break it. [13:03] You might be able to break it. You slam it. [13:05] But yeah, this is... [13:08] - He's simple. [13:09] permanent biker structure. [13:11] comes out of the mall. It's kind of like [13:15] using a process that's sort of like injection loading up for carbon fiber. And, um, [13:20] which is a really, really hard thing. [13:22] to design, it has to be obviously not just [13:24] strong, we also have to be very rich. [13:26] One thing that you worry a lot about this in aircraft is [13:28] if you're worried about [13:29] whether you're exciting different [13:32] different kinds of vibration and aircraft connections [13:34] shake and Aircraft and Park. [13:35] It's actually one of the main failure modes for an airplane. [13:37] So anyway, those MREX structures basically come onto the line and immediately start routing bus bars and [13:45] Hi. [13:47] through the main primary structure, but then also install the Spike computer and the card [13:52] board, all different Vionics. [13:53] There are about 43 major sub-assemblies. [13:56] on each truck up and [13:58] 700 unique components. So you can see a lot of the components that get assembled onto the air prop is being used. [14:03] in these bins next to each substation. [14:06] Um... [14:07] All of these are designed from trash by zip line, to global supply chain. And as I mentioned, a lot of those components are actually now manufactured here. So for example, we can go see the battery welding line in a second.

[14:19] So it's kind of cool if we stop for a second. [14:23] power distribution board. [14:24] to play compute for. [14:26] We've now run the wiring and the bus bar group, primary structure itself, so we're ready to [14:32] Motors. [14:33] Also designed to build a contract as a blind. [14:35] You can also see the... [14:37] We call this the [14:40] the winch assembly. This is both the [14:42] Thank you. [14:43] - Thank you. [14:44] Yeah. [14:45] Thank you. [14:45] the docking bin. [14:47] basically latches in Pagah, as well as the winch. You should get it even lower to dry man, [14:52] or when we're loading. [14:54] a package into the aircraft. [14:56] But yeah, as we come down, all of the software, even the software, you can actually see, [15:01] probably see on the screen here, even the software that controls all the manufacturing instructions [15:06] - Oh my god. [15:07] That's pretty advanced. [15:09] So like all those manufacturing instructions [15:14] all of Zipline's manufacturing software system is also built on scratch by Zipline. That might sound weird. Like, you would think, oh, you probably use, you know, some kind of, because there are plenty of companies that make, like, software, [15:25] like an MRP, what is he called? [15:28] um, [15:29] but Zipline actually designed all of our salt. [15:32] Yeah. So it's a weird thing to do, really, like any other companies that do that. [15:36] that I know ever tests on the social sex [15:38] but designing your entire operating system for the company. All the software that we use on the manufacturing floor, all the software that we use on the internet site, service center, [15:48] all of that hopping off.

[15:51] Not only are we building all the software that runs on the aircraft, [15:54] not only overbuilding [15:56] communications architecture, [15:58] - We'll see what he can put, Shannon. [16:00] us who are facing an app because of unapplicable downloads or orders. [16:05] We also build the unmanned truck management system, provides you get there. [16:08] But after all that, we'll also [16:09] designing the [16:10] operating system [16:12] for the company itself, which is controlling [16:14] supply chain, manufacturing, maintenance, logistics, [16:19] might seem like a weird or nuanced blank face. [16:21] really big in neighborhood. [16:23] Um... [16:24] The other advantage of being in control of all that software [16:27] is it allows us to [16:28] Um, [16:30] It allows us to have full track and traceability of every single component that goes into this aircraft. [16:35] big component of our particular carousel. [16:37] If ever something goes wrong in the rear vault, we need to be able to [16:41] identify, look, and onus sales. [16:42] track that zone into a specific batch, and you should be able to know every single-tubed aircraft besides it, [16:49] You can quarantine if necessary. You can go that by the supplier. [16:52] Okay. [16:53] for it. [16:54] some kind of flawless process. [16:56] Um... [16:58] This is extraordinary. [16:59] super important in terms of designing systems. [17:01] that are not just [17:02] really cost effective, but they're [17:04] us to shorten the [17:05] and [17:07] At the end of the day, the zipline has run 140 million, and for not as small, it has [17:11] Zero kicker. [17:13] If you were to drive 130 miles [17:16] hard. [17:17] even in a place like the US. [17:19] you would have about 600 crashes.

[17:21] 100 injuries, 15 machines, 26 to cast. [17:24] So not only is the goal to save lives, to deliver lives in modern bases, but the goal is also to align [17:32] to just have fundamental. [17:34] Super Moe-Cathletic, so it's safe to find. [17:39] This whole building, you know, it's been a huge advantage, like very [17:43] Sort of similar to how Tesla originally had, Fremont, right? [17:47] a giant car factory that was right next to engineering for several years. [17:51] Um... [17:52] This factory has been a huge advantage, like this building, as we've been able to expand into more and more of it. [17:59] It's just a huge advantage to have [18:01] all of this stuff tightly integrated together. It allows us to get lightning fast and heart [18:06] So these are actually dots. [18:08] here [18:09] the dock is [18:11] the piece of hardware that we're installing on the towers themselves. [18:16] posted something on X 60 days ago. It was like the new 12 dock tower design. I don't know if you saw that. [18:21] I loved how I actually posted that. [18:23] And people were asking croc because I just said next gen. [18:27] What is this? How does it work? And Grok was saying, [18:29] don't worry, this is a CGI rendering of some kind of technology. This is like awesome. [18:37] Croc is incorrect. [18:40] that is operating in its real world today. [18:43] But yeah, so these docks may fall on tout. These are basic, like, superchargers for a crowd. [18:49] on the dock, so the aircraft's--

[18:51] Hello. [18:52] It latches into the dock. [18:55] It teems the aircraft. [18:56] it charges the aircraft, it actually... [18:59] It was preconditioned power. [19:03] down the penny mark. [19:04] at the temperatures, but also uploads data [19:06] You found that. [19:08] every place centering over it [19:09] I can't get by now. [19:10] points did it [19:11] on the drain, super useful. [19:13] all future clients say for him. [19:16] Do you saw on your all-in interview that people would go to the... [19:21] Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. They'll bring their kids. Young kids will ask. They'll be like, where do you want to go? Do you want to go to the park? Do you want to go to the museum? Because they'll be like, I want to go to a zip line. So they'll drive to a parking lot and they sit and just watch the air. They'll have to start getting an ice cream stand. I know, I know. We need to be selling swag. That could be another component of the business. We're selling T-shirts and food. Kind of like the Tesla diner, the supercharger. Yeah. [19:50] Um... [19:51] Yeah, it's a thing. So yeah, lots of batteries, weight to go on the aircraft. And then this is a lot of joint manufacturing. [19:59] The droid is that smaller, cute, [20:01] robot that's actually controlling its position on x and y axis when we're landing. [20:05] It looks like the thing is so many people. [20:08] Yeah, a little like that. Yep. We kind of designed it, though, inspired by like, E from WALL-E. Yeah. Yeah, you want it to look cute and you want, and it needs to, like, say the neck of it. [20:19] Um... [20:20] You want it to...

[20:21] It needs to be safe. But just to point it, it has to feel safe. And actually... You know, when you see... [20:27] kids and families receiving deliveries from Zipine, you can tell they peels. [20:32] Because it's quiet. [20:34] and this robot [20:35] It feels friendly. It is safe. It looks safe. Kids steal from the wall being right next to it. [20:40] grabbing the packages since it's effort. This is the reason people have this concept in their head of like, [20:47] because some other countries are actually doing this, you're, you're like descending this massive octopopter of [20:54] Sounds like a lawnmower of death. [20:57] to within like you know 20 feet of you it's like you know you're you're you're like incredibly loud incredibly scary [21:05] is actually super dangerous. [21:06] have an aircraft [21:07] of that size from that close to your house. And that's all insane. [21:12] Like, for this to actually work, you've got to have this as a little experience. [21:15] is more magical. [21:17] why in earth. [21:18] safer. [21:18] - And the way to do so. [21:20] The way you do that is by keeping the main aircraft, making the main aircraft super fly it. [21:24] I think you can get 100 meters a year at all times. [21:26] robot like the droid action [21:30] Have you thought of putting good flea eyes on it? [21:32] Yeah, we have. I like the idea of doing like stickers on the front and having little like [21:37] two little chip hunks like holding flight controls of like, you know, aviator goggles and things like that to make it look like two little chip hunks are controlling you. Some of you may not have heard this yet, but our sponsor Public just launched something called Generated Assets, and it brings AI into investing in a way I've honestly never seen before. Here's how it works. You type in an idea like AI powered supply chain companies with positive free cash flow or defense tech companies growing revenue over 25% year over year.

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[23:38] If something's going to fail, we want it to fail here. [23:41] Thank you. [23:42] rather than fail in the group. [23:44] As long as it fails here, we can then figure out [23:47] what we need to change, improve it, and upgrade. [23:51] So when people are... When you say in order, what do they, like, is that... [23:56] Yeah, today placing order is super easy. I mean you just download the Zipline app. If you're living in one of Zipline's metros, you just download the Zipline app and then you can see all the different school friends. You can see Walmart. [24:07] Poetlay Whitney Buffalo Wild Wings Sweetgreen and Body Water Remedy Carpenter Institute or Health Care Carpenter Institute of AG. [24:14] I'm seeing a few descriptions in a-- [24:16] That's it, me. It's perfect. [24:20] to deliver a question to your GPS. [24:22] Thank you. [24:24] I think I saw in one of the demo is that you can [24:27] maybe I don't know this happens everywhere but you can see like aerial footage of your house and yeah the first time you're ordering you just type in your address we show you a satellite image of your house you get to exactly get to just choose exactly where you want [24:42] it's a really big advantage because a lot of houses you know being able to have something over to your backyard like [24:47] more secure, more private, worry about much higher risk. [24:52] yeah it's great and a lot of people really love just being able to like [24:55] You can literally tell it exactly where you're going to be, like on the side of your pool, or on your front doorstep, or in your driveway. [25:02] The other nice thing is these kinds of robotic systems that are really reliable. [25:06] Once you say how you want the thing delivered, we will deliver to that spot every single time without fail.

[25:11] we deliver in a highly accurate timed dev. [25:14] Because you're not worrying about Trap Day or what human beings tell it to do, Whitney. There you go. How many orders can someone put to the house? [25:22] We never would have tested that. I think you should test it out. We should. [25:27] I have two hands. [25:28] We don't necessarily want people trying to do that because, as I mentioned, right now we are severely supply constrained. We need people only ordering what they definitely need because right now the system is struggling to keep up with demand. [25:41] Yeah, but say like you either want to give someone a birthday or you don't like someone. You want to break their house. So interestingly, birthdays are huge. Tons of people are like for birthdays having birthday cakes or cupcakes and deliver in front of all the kids. [25:59] This is one of the reasons we've been able to turn off all Stargate because this is viral. It makes for really good TikTok content. A lot of people are making these TikTok videos and you can see 10 or 10 million times that they've been using. [26:10] So this is a lot of the, we just walked by a lot of the HALT chambers that's like accelerated life cycle testing chambers [26:17] Every single component will heat up, cool down, vibrate it, will try to break it all kinds of different ways. This is testing the roll tilt mechanism, which is [26:27] really important part of your account. You can see [26:29] 20 of growth open-up message right there. They are running right now, but you know, [26:33] any hardware iteration, we will do millions of hours of testing across these methods and different components to make sure that we have fully characterized the relight with the component before it goes to the output.

[26:46] There's a lot of tea. [26:47] It saved his eyes. [26:49] a lot of those end of line test jigs and [26:52] Bye. [26:53] - My second. [26:54] We did. [26:55] One more cool thing to show you is the Vive Lab. We obviously think a lot about the reliability of the system, as well as how many life cycles can get out of an aircraft. [27:08] Airplanes have to think, you know, cars you already worry a lot about vibrations, airplanes have to worry even more about [27:14] because [27:15] Um... [27:16] when you're spinning motors and especially when you're transitioning from [27:19] hover into fixed wing flight [27:21] You get something called edgewise flow across the [27:24] colors that can [27:25] possibly [27:25] curious. [27:26] vibration [27:27] from the, you know, [27:28] through the propellers into the motors and then infilling itself. [27:32] If the primary structure happens to vibrate at that same frequency, you can basically shake and have [27:37] In fact, that's one of the reasons it's heartfelt. [27:39] reliable. [27:40] Pretty built up. [27:41] for the takeoff. [27:43] great care. [27:44] And so we do a huge amount of testing [27:46] the microphone vibration [27:48] one of the test setups [27:49] These are like large vibration tables that we use. [27:52] We also use [27:53] over here. [27:54] where we can actually [27:55] hit things with liquid nitrogen and instantly cool them down [28:00] to a super cool [28:02] - Bye-bye. [28:03] to a very cold temperature. [28:04] - Tick. [28:05] where we're basically almost forcing the thing to break. We're gonna like subject it to such extreme temperature [28:11] and such extreme vibration. [28:12] that we can force the thing to break. [28:15] and therefore determine what is the weakest part of the structure itself. We can go back and wait for a step-by-step

[28:22] So yeah, this might all seem kind of technical or in the weeds, [28:26] this level of [28:27] testing and validation is required. That's how we build a system that has [28:31] 140 million commercial companies. [28:35] Founders ship faster on deal. Set up payroll for any country in minutes, hire anyone anywhere, get visas handled fast, and get back to building. Visit deel.com slash sorcery. That's deel.com slash s-o-u-r-c-e-r-y. [29:03] can see. Uh, no, we can show you. We can show you. Okay. [29:08] Can someone demo it for you? Oh yeah, yeah. You can actually do it on the top. It's 45. So you can do this and then you can kind of see our TikTok case through it. So that's what Kara was talking about earlier. [29:19] It goes from water to the body where it stirs it. [29:23] so [29:24] You can do that and you can kind of see how it appears [29:27] Okay, so the goal is not to like... [29:31] as possible. Alright guys, this is what we're going to do here. Today, we're going to [29:38] Toss this out. [29:40] Bye. [29:41] Yes. [29:41] You can see the vibration in your eyes. [29:46] You... [29:47] Feel this so you can see the vibration in your eyes. [29:50] Yeah. Right? Yeah.

[29:53] Cool. [29:53] - Are you choosing my table? - Yeah, choosing my table. - I didn't pass. - Holly approved. - Okay, we're gonna fill up this one on. [30:01] So we usually have these fans set up in Alapod. [30:05] Wings, gates, air services [30:07] they will get very high ethical power [30:10] "Aliation Miles" [30:12] Indoors. [30:13] with the lyrations, after the sake was not finished. [30:17] So we see the vibration of the stomach [30:19] Do you have OT decks up for you on that one? [30:22] we will get CD2.5 [30:25] It's so nice. [30:26] Alright, you have any directions on? Alright, we want to let our turn on. [30:30] You like the green button and then the one on the screen. [30:34] Good luck. [30:35] She wouldn't have turned it off. Oh, sorry, yeah, yeah, peace. [30:38] I'll bite. [30:41] Alright, actually turning it off is free-clog too, it makes a crazy noise, so hit the red button. Yeah, you hit the red button. [30:48] Right now? Is it on? Not really. [30:52] Okay, that's it. Now you turn it on to the green button. [30:56] switch the green button [30:57] Once it comes on, you hear this on us, that's weak. [31:00] And later on this [31:02] on up on him and then that's when he gets running out. That's when he... [31:06] Press that button and then duck. That was so good at duck for cover. [31:15] and toes [31:17] oh I'm nervous [31:18] Bye. [31:19] action [31:20] *pain* [31:22] Thank you. [31:23] Okay.

[31:24] Thank you. [31:26] Bye. [31:27] It takes a second. [31:29] One more time. [31:30] Oh yeah, the arm. [31:31] Bye. [31:32] Thank you. [31:33] Thank you. [31:34] Alright, so now we're going to run the test here. So what you hear is just the band. Great. [32:04] Thank you. [32:34] Thank you.

[33:04] Thank you. [33:34] *Sings* [34:04] Yeah, exactly though, I'm starting to watch it. Alright, let's keep going. [34:12] The fan's good, you want to do the fan? Alright, alright, get in your diction on. So give like a little demo of this first, and then if you want to get in front of them, they're wild. So we... [34:22] These are RC playing fans for like a 7 foot model jet or whatever. [34:27] and we use them to [34:29] What like we were saying for tails and wings and control surface, under wind road can get stuck. It can cause it to get stuck. So while we do a bypass, we blow air over them.

[34:40] to simulate that it's flying through the air while going through a really fast vibe test. [34:45] So let's check them out. These are pretty loud. [34:48] Oh, I'm just... I'm warning. [34:50] If you go in for a second [34:51] Like, it is what bill you had. [34:53] Do we need somebody else to do it? Go for it. You can like, open the view. Yeah! You can like, feel it in your hand. Wait, did you test it out? It's going to blow this way. I'll step out of frame and I'll turn it off. You're going to blow my lightning back? It's going to be like that in Hollywood. Yeah, yeah, it's wrong. Is it a Dyson hair dryer? Yeah, it's crazy. [35:23] Oh yes, you want to drive? No, you got it. Alright, you ready? Go for it. [35:53] $8,000 an hour! It's saliva! Oh, this one's definitely faster! [36:05] Oh, you're a fart train! I'm just sorry!

[36:17] That's great! Fantastic! I feel like that'll be a really good end for the video. [36:23] - His face is like... - It's crazy, right? - I know, you're just sitting there all day. It's kind of weird. - More than you would probably think, yeah. [36:33] It's like when you touch an electric fence and it does it again. [36:39] That was awesome. Okay, good intro for the video. Alright, should we go to headquarters real quick? Yeah, we should. Are we doing a countdown? We're running a little bit of time. [36:46] explain in one sentence what accelerator cyclopsing [36:48] Do people know what that is? Does that matter? [36:51] - I think so, I mean-- - It's just like, it's simulated, yeah. [36:54] Yeah, I mean, look, basically the reason all this accelerated life cycle testing is so important is for any given component, you're just going to beat the crap out of it. [37:01] here. [37:02] from a testing and validation perspective. [37:04] So if it's going to fail, it fails here rather than in. [37:06] in the row up. [37:08] This is how we validate every single component up to hundreds of thousands or millions [37:12] cycles. [37:13] Hey, it's Molly. If you enjoy our interviews, check out our newsletter, sorcery.vc. [37:18] where we deliver a once a week top deals and tech headlines email, and also go deeper on our podcast interviews. Subscribe to Sorcery today. And don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you listen. Link in description to sign up.