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Jeremy Schneiderman Built the Drone Store. Now He Has the Aerospace Company to Run.
Jeremy Schneiderman spent twelve years turning a Florida drone shop into an enterprise operating system. Nine months after XTI Aerospace bought the company, its board handed him the cockpit.
Drone Nerds Turned a Drone Store Into a $100 Million Enterprise Lifeline
The Florida retailer discovered that the valuable part of a drone is not the box - it is everything required to keep a fleet useful, compliant and in the air. Now that service machine must navigate the American market's retreat from Chinese hardware.
How a Dorm-Room Drone Project Became the Company That Owns the Sky
Frank Wang built his first flight controller in a Hong Kong dorm. Two decades later DJI sells most of the drones on Earth - and Washington is trying to decide whether to let it keep selling them here.
Adam Bry
Adam Bry is co-founder and CEO of Skydio, the leading U.S. drone manufacturer and world leader in autonomous flight. A childhood R/C aerobatics national champion turned MIT robotics researcher, he turned down a DJI acquisition in 2014 to bet everything on autonomy — and won. Today Skydio has deployed over 60,000 drones to every branch of the U.S. military, 1,200+ public safety agencies, and 45 of 51 state transportation departments, with a $4.4 billion valuation and $3.5 billion U.S. manufacturing expansion underway.