I will preface this newsletter by saying that, despite my best efforts, I still can’t get a potato delivered to my house via drone.
I’ve been excited to get said potato for almost three years now—ever since a friend rang me up and told me that, exactly 6.2 miles away from my home in Arkansas, they were flying drones out behind a Walmart. Naturally, I abandoned my desk and drove on over to see them for myself. And I ended up writing about the operation, startup Zipline’s first outpost in the U.S., for our magazine back in Dec. 2021.
