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Building a Cutting Edge Drone Technology Company: Tom Walker, CEO of DroneUp (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Are you then pivoting the business largely into the delivery sector? Tom Walker: We’re splitting the company into two. There are so many opportunities in the services side. Our growth is about equal in terms of the delivery and the growth of the services. We had been seeing 900% growth on the services
Building a Cutting Edge Drone Technology Company: Tom Walker, CEO of DroneUp (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Where are you revenue-wise? $20 million? Tom Walker: We’ll do more than that this year. To put it in perspective, we were 12 full-time people in January of 2021. Now we have 25,000 drone operators. We are 205 full-time employees. By the end of this year, we’ll be at a little over 650.
Building a Cutting Edge Drone Technology Company: Tom Walker, CEO of DroneUp (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Did you learn that there was this segment that has this need in the shipping segment? Tom Walker: Port and port security. The problem at that time was there were so many industries that we knew could use it. I’ll give you an example from the insurance industry. A storm comes through an
Building a Cutting Edge Drone Technology Company: Tom Walker, CEO of DroneUp (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Tell us how the side project turned into a business. Tom Walker: I’ll tell you a funny story along the way. We had some people join the organization as volunteers. A retired CIO from a large company came on board. We were trying to build something, but we didn’t know what it was.
Building a Cutting Edge Drone Technology Company: Tom Walker, CEO of DroneUp (Part 1)
The drone industry is a massive beneficiary of the Corvid pandemic. Read how Tom has shepherded DroneUp to hyper-growth from its bootstrapped beginnings and a slow start. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
