Training Data · Tuesday, July 7, 2026
Zipline's initial launch in Rwanda was a 'total disaster,' serving only one of 21 contracted hospitals for nine months. The company learned that focusing on the 'cool vehicle' was a mistake, and the core solution lay in building robust infrastructure, as emphasized by Eric, who noted the constant all-nighters and weekends spent fixing issues.
“And when we launched, it was a total disaster.”
“We served one hospital for the first nine months.”
“Constant all-nighters and working through the weekends because we'd made this big error, which was thinking that like the cool vehicle was the majority of the solution.”