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'''Keller Rinaudo Cliffton''' is an American robotics and autonomous airplane entrepreneur and the CEO and a co-founder of [[Zipline (drone delivery)|Zipline]].<ref name=BloomProfile/><ref name=TEDRinaudo>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/keller_rinaudo|title=Keller Rinaudo |website=[[TED (conference)|TED]] |last=Rinaudo|first=Keller|access-date=November 4, 2018|language=en}}</ref> |
'''Keller Rinaudo Cliffton''' is an American robotics and autonomous airplane entrepreneur and the CEO and a co-founder of [[Zipline (drone delivery company)|Zipline]].<ref name=BloomProfile/><ref name=TEDRinaudo>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/keller_rinaudo|title=Keller Rinaudo |website=[[TED (conference)|TED]] |last=Rinaudo Cliffton|first=Keller|access-date=November 4, 2018|language=en}}</ref> |
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Zipline began drone deliveries in [[Rwanda]] in late 2016, and primarily delivers blood to urgent medical situations.<ref name="mit">{{Cite news|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608034/blood-from-the-sky-ziplines-ambitious-medical-drone-delivery-in-africa/|title=Zipline's Ambitious Medical Drone Delivery in Africa |last=Rosen|first=Jonathan W.|work=[[MIT Technology Review]] |date=June 8, 2017 |access-date=August 24, 2018|language=en}}</ref> |
Zipline began drone deliveries in [[Rwanda]] in late 2016, and primarily delivers blood to urgent medical situations.<ref name="mit">{{Cite news|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608034/blood-from-the-sky-ziplines-ambitious-medical-drone-delivery-in-africa/|title=Zipline's Ambitious Medical Drone Delivery in Africa |last=Rosen|first=Jonathan W.|work=[[MIT Technology Review]] |date=June 8, 2017 |access-date=August 24, 2018|language=en}}</ref> |
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He was also the CEO and a co-founder of [[Romotive]], a former company established in 2011 with [[Kickstarter]] funding that made inexpensive small robots that use mobile phones as their computing system, machine vision system, and wireless communication system.<ref name=TEDRinaudo/> Romotive essentially shut down in 2014 and morphed into Zipline.<ref name=SimpleBoticsShutdown>{{Cite web|url=http://www.simplebotics.com/2016/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-robot-startup-romotive.html|title=Why Romotive shut down|last=simplebotics|date=February 8, 2016|website=Simplebotics|language=en-US|access-date=December 5, 2018}}</ref> Rinaudo presented a [[TED Talk]] about Romotive in April 2013 and another in November 2017 about Zipline.<ref name=TEDRinaudo/> |
He was also the CEO and a co-founder of [[Romotive]], a former company established in 2011 with [[Kickstarter]] funding that made inexpensive small robots that use mobile phones as their computing system, machine vision system, and wireless communication system.<ref name=TEDRinaudo/> Romotive essentially shut down in 2014 and morphed into Zipline.<ref name=SimpleBoticsShutdown>{{Cite web|url=http://www.simplebotics.com/2016/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-robot-startup-romotive.html|title=Why Romotive shut down|last=simplebotics|date=February 8, 2016|website=Simplebotics|language=en-US|access-date=December 5, 2018}}</ref> Rinaudo Cliffton presented a [[TED Talk]] about Romotive in April 2013 and another in November 2017 about Zipline.<ref name=TEDRinaudo/> |
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== Education == |
== Education == |
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=== Early education === |
=== Early education === |
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Rinaudo Cliffton attended North High School in [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix Arizona]], receiving an IB diploma and being named a [[National Merit Scholarship Program|National Merit Scholar]].<ref name="Podcast">{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@TheFluxPodcast/16-keller-rinaudo-building-the-sky-ambulance-22c4245d37a5|title=16: Keller Rinaudo – Building the Sky Ambulance|last=Podcast|first=Flux|date=August 19, 2018|website=Medium|language=en|access-date=December 1, 2019}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=April 2024}} |
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=== College and internships === |
=== College and internships === |
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Rinaudo is a graduate of [[Harvard University]],<ref name="BloomProfile">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=145254526&privcapId=145470290|title=Keller Rinaudo |website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=November 4, 2018}}</ref><ref name="ForbesProfile">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/keller-rinaudo/ |title=Keller Rinaudo: Co-founder, Zipline |website=Forbes |access-date=December 7, 2018}}</ref> where he was the founder of the Harvard climbing wall. The wall was initially founded by Rinaudo with help from Harvard Business School student Karl R. R. Kuryla as a relatively primitive construction in [[Lowell House]] in 2006, and was later upgraded and reopened in the [[Radcliffe Quadrangle (Harvard)|Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |first=Melissa |last=Tran |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/10/18/hard-as-a-rock-wall-looking/ |title=Hard as a Rock Wall |date=October 18, 2006 |access-date=December 7, 2018 |website=[[The Harvard Crimson]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/28/qrac-climbing-wall-opens/ |title=Expanded Climbing Wall Reopens at QRAC |date=September 28, 2017 |access-date=December 7, 2018 |first1=Henry W. |last1=Burnes |first2=Kenton K. |last2=Shimozaki |work=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref><ref name="BloomProfile" /> |
Rinaudo Cliffton is a graduate of [[Harvard University]],<ref name="BloomProfile">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=145254526&privcapId=145470290|title=Keller Rinaudo |website=www.bloomberg.com|access-date=November 4, 2018}}</ref><ref name="ForbesProfile">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/keller-rinaudo/ |title=Keller Rinaudo: Co-founder, Zipline |website=Forbes |access-date=December 7, 2018}}</ref> where he was the founder of the Harvard climbing wall. The wall was initially founded by Rinaudo Cliffton with help from Harvard Business School student Karl R. R. Kuryla as a relatively primitive construction in [[Lowell House]] in 2006, and was later upgraded and reopened in the [[Radcliffe Quadrangle (Harvard)|Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |first=Melissa |last=Tran |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/10/18/hard-as-a-rock-wall-looking/ |title=Hard as a Rock Wall |date=October 18, 2006 |access-date=December 7, 2018 |website=[[The Harvard Crimson]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/28/qrac-climbing-wall-opens/ |title=Expanded Climbing Wall Reopens at QRAC |date=September 28, 2017 |access-date=December 7, 2018 |first1=Henry W. |last1=Burnes |first2=Kenton K. |last2=Shimozaki |work=The Harvard Crimson}}</ref><ref name="BloomProfile" /> |
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While a student, |
While a student, Rinaudo Cliffton built computers out of RNA and DNA that he said could operate in human cells as "molecular doctors". He published this research in ''[[Nature Biotechnology]]'', becoming one of the youngest first authors in that publication's history.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=A universal RNAi-based logic evaluator that operates in mammalian cells|year=2007|url=http://www.gmo-qpcr-analysis.info/keller-rinaudo-rnai-boolean-logic-2007.pdf|doi=10.1038/nbt1307|last1=Rinaudo|first1=Keller|last2=Bleris|first2=Leonidas|last3=Maddamsetti|first3=Rohan|last4=Subramanian|first4=Sairam|last5=Weiss|first5=Ron|last6=Benenson|first6=Yaakov|journal=Nature Biotechnology|volume=25|issue=7|pages=795–801|pmid=17515909|s2cid=280451}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=April 2024|reason=no such claim for becoming one of the youngest first authors in source}} |
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Keller graduated from Harvard [[magna cum laude]] and Phi Beta Kappa with a 3.9 GPA and was designated a Harvard College Scholar for superior academic achievement both freshman and second years and also won the Detur Book Prize (top 5% of the class).<ref name=":0">Department of Construction Management & Civil Engineering</ref> |
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While in his undergrad at Harvard, Keller spent several summers (2006–2008) working at the management consulting firm, [[Boston Consulting Group]] (BCG).{{cn|date=November 2021}} He signed a full-time offer at BCG following his junior year internship to return to the firm following graduation (for fall of 2009). During his time at BCG, Keller "Conducted in-depth financial analysis of 140 competitors in the engineering construction industry and co-wrote new international strategy for a US company with $8B in revenue."<ref name=":0" /> |
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==== MBA ==== |
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In his senior year at Harvard, Keller was also admitted into Harvard Business School (HBS) for the class of 2013 - through the 2+2 program. However, Keller ultimately chose not to attend HBS due to the success of Romotive. |
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== Early career == |
== Early career == |
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Following his graduation from Harvard, |
Following his graduation from Harvard, Rinaudo Cliffton spent 2.5 months at BCG in their San Francisco office before quitting to live out of his van and become a professional rock climber.<ref name="Podcast"/>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=April 2024}} |
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⚫ | Rinaudo Cliffton grew up rock climbing and quickly found professional success in the sport. As a professional rock climber he was ranked in the top 10 in sport climbing.<ref name="TEDRinaudo" />{{Dubious|date=April 2024|reason=TED bio is not a reliable source for biographical info. No byline nor any signs of editorial fact checking on this source. No reference to who made this ranking or when}} He has scaled alpine cliffs in France, overhanging sandstone caves in [[Kentucky]]<ref name="TEDRinaudo" /> and the limestone towers of [[Yangshuo County|Yangshuo, China]].<ref name="TEDRinaudo" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://climbingaway.fr/en/climbing-areas/yangshuo-moon-hill|title=Yangshuo (Moon Hill)|website=Climbing Away|language=en-gb|access-date=November 4, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://vimeo.com/18004249|title=Keller Rinaudo – China Climb 5.14b|access-date=December 7, 2018|website=[[Vimeo]]}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=There are no good sources used here. Vimeo, the TED profile, and other site that just shares the vimeo video do not meet BLP.|date=April 2024}} |
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Keller founded JobSpice through the business accelerator [[Y Combinator]] in the fall of 2009. |
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==Romotive== |
==Romotive== |
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In 2011, |
In 2011, Rinaudo Cliffton founded Romotive, an [[iPhone]]-controlled toy robot.<ref name="interview">{{cite web |title=Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Romotive's Keller Rinaudo (update: video embedded) |url=https://www.engadget.com/2013/01/11/romotive-interview/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIQzPP2gUSRHBuqKYmKXY6ClUg_YXryjbahncoYIwO0fjgDj4N3vZdUMdge-BJY_RiHmFvDNcVd14VpuHtLftOXXDc0OSVVY_KWPUQb5bsNRm9B9UQ8RqCnvXmYb9vkWQdwSl8WPCZO5eGLpOptm872TtCPkB5lU2nYsmaWASDue |website=engadget | date=January 11, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2020}}</ref> Rinaudo Cliffton sold the first version through [[Kickstarter]].<ref name="interview"/> Romotive morphed into Zipline in 2014 when Rinaudo Cliffton realized that the competition was not other toys but [[Minecraft]] and phone apps.<ref name="Pando">{{cite web |title="People were questioning my sanity": The improbable comeback of Rinaudo Cliffton Rinaudo |url=https://pando.com/2016/11/10/zipline/ |website=Pando |access-date=January 16, 2020}}</ref> "If we’d compared ourselves to true competition-- competition for a 12-year-old's time-- this is not a battle that robotics was going to win."<ref name="Pando"/> |
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== Zipline == |
== Zipline == |
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Zipline International, an American company established in 2014, excels in designing, manufacturing, and operating [[delivery drone|delivery drones]], focusing on medical supplies. As of September 2023, Zipline's drones have achieved over 750,000 commercial deliveries and navigated more than 40 million autonomous miles. Their fleet transports various medical items, including whole blood, platelets, plasma, [[vaccine|vaccines]], and medicines. In [[Rwanda]], Zipline drones are responsible for over 75% of blood deliveries outside the capital, and in [[Ghana]], they initiated vaccine and medicine deliveries in 2019. Amid the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Zipline collaborated with [[Novant Health]] in the U.S., receiving a waiver from the [[Federal Aviation Administration|FAA]] for delivering medical supplies and [[personal protective equipment|PPE]] in [[North Carolina]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Zipline (drone delivery)|date=November 27, 2019|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zipline_(drone_delivery)&oldid=928171688|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=November 11, 2023}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=WIkipedia is not a source|date=April 2024}} |
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== Personal life == |
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In Ghana, the company began using drones in April 2019 to deliver vaccines, blood, and drugs.<ref name="ReutersVaccines">{{cite web|last=Kelland|first=Kate|date=April 24, 2019|title=Drones to deliver vaccines, blood and drugs across Ghana|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-vaccines-drones-idUSKCN1S0175|access-date=May 21, 2019|website=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> |
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Keller is the son of William (Bill) Phillips and Debra Rinaudo.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://fatheringexcellence.com/episodes/ep-1-father-of-keller-rinaudo-entrepreneur-william-phillips-rinaudo/ | title=Ep 1. Father of Keller Rinaudo (Entrepreneur): William Phillips Rinaudo – Fathering Excellence }}</ref> He is married to Stephanie Nevins Cliffton, PhD, who got her PhD at Stanford in Genetics/Genomics.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} Nevins Cliffton is the founder and CEO of a stealth startup.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} Keller and Stephanie have two daughters together.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}} |
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During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the US Federal Aviation Administration approved Zipline for the delivery of medical supplies and personal protective equipment to hospitals in [[North Carolina]]. The company also plans to offer deliveries to people's homes.<ref>{{Cite news|date=May 27, 2020|title=Drones deliver medical supplies and PPE in US|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52819648|access-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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Keller Rinaudo Cliffton is an American robotics and autonomous airplane entrepreneur and the CEO and a co-founder of Zipline.[1][2]
Zipline began drone deliveries in Rwanda in late 2016, and primarily delivers blood to urgent medical situations.[3]
He was also the CEO and a co-founder of Romotive, a former company established in 2011 with Kickstarter funding that made inexpensive small robots that use mobile phones as their computing system, machine vision system, and wireless communication system.[2] Romotive essentially shut down in 2014 and morphed into Zipline.[4] Rinaudo Cliffton presented a TED Talk about Romotive in April 2013 and another in November 2017 about Zipline.[2]
Education
Early education
Rinaudo Cliffton attended North High School in Phoenix Arizona, receiving an IB diploma and being named a National Merit Scholar.[5][better source needed]
College and internships
Rinaudo Cliffton is a graduate of Harvard University,[1][6] where he was the founder of the Harvard climbing wall. The wall was initially founded by Rinaudo Cliffton with help from Harvard Business School student Karl R. R. Kuryla as a relatively primitive construction in Lowell House in 2006, and was later upgraded and reopened in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center in 2017.[7][8][1]
While a student, Rinaudo Cliffton built computers out of RNA and DNA that he said could operate in human cells as "molecular doctors". He published this research in Nature Biotechnology, becoming one of the youngest first authors in that publication's history.[9][additional citation(s) needed]
Early career
Following his graduation from Harvard, Rinaudo Cliffton spent 2.5 months at BCG in their San Francisco office before quitting to live out of his van and become a professional rock climber.[5][better source needed]
Rinaudo Cliffton grew up rock climbing and quickly found professional success in the sport. As a professional rock climber he was ranked in the top 10 in sport climbing.[2][dubious ] He has scaled alpine cliffs in France, overhanging sandstone caves in Kentucky[2] and the limestone towers of Yangshuo, China.[2][10][11][better source needed]
Romotive
In 2011, Rinaudo Cliffton founded Romotive, an iPhone-controlled toy robot.[12] Rinaudo Cliffton sold the first version through Kickstarter.[12] Romotive morphed into Zipline in 2014 when Rinaudo Cliffton realized that the competition was not other toys but Minecraft and phone apps.[13] "If we’d compared ourselves to true competition-- competition for a 12-year-old's time-- this is not a battle that robotics was going to win."[13]
Zipline
Zipline International, an American company established in 2014, excels in designing, manufacturing, and operating delivery drones, focusing on medical supplies. As of September 2023, Zipline's drones have achieved over 750,000 commercial deliveries and navigated more than 40 million autonomous miles. Their fleet transports various medical items, including whole blood, platelets, plasma, vaccines, and medicines. In Rwanda, Zipline drones are responsible for over 75% of blood deliveries outside the capital, and in Ghana, they initiated vaccine and medicine deliveries in 2019. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Zipline collaborated with Novant Health in the U.S., receiving a waiver from the FAA for delivering medical supplies and PPE in North Carolina.[14][better source needed]
Personal life
Keller is the son of William (Bill) Phillips and Debra Rinaudo.[15] He is married to Stephanie Nevins Cliffton, PhD, who got her PhD at Stanford in Genetics/Genomics.[citation needed] Nevins Cliffton is the founder and CEO of a stealth startup.[citation needed] Keller and Stephanie have two daughters together.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c "Keller Rinaudo". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f Rinaudo Cliffton, Keller. "Keller Rinaudo". TED. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
- ^ Rosen, Jonathan W. (June 8, 2017). "Zipline's Ambitious Medical Drone Delivery in Africa". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
- ^ simplebotics (February 8, 2016). "Why Romotive shut down". Simplebotics. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- ^ a b Podcast, Flux (August 19, 2018). "16: Keller Rinaudo – Building the Sky Ambulance". Medium. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
- ^ "Keller Rinaudo: Co-founder, Zipline". Forbes. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ Tran, Melissa (October 18, 2006). "Hard as a Rock Wall". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ Burnes, Henry W.; Shimozaki, Kenton K. (September 28, 2017). "Expanded Climbing Wall Reopens at QRAC". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ Rinaudo, Keller; Bleris, Leonidas; Maddamsetti, Rohan; Subramanian, Sairam; Weiss, Ron; Benenson, Yaakov (2007). "A universal RNAi-based logic evaluator that operates in mammalian cells" (PDF). Nature Biotechnology. 25 (7): 795–801. doi:10.1038/nbt1307. PMID 17515909. S2CID 280451.
- ^ "Yangshuo (Moon Hill)". Climbing Away. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
- ^ Keller Rinaudo – China Climb 5.14b. Vimeo. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
- ^ a b "Live from the Engadget CES Stage: an interview with Romotive's Keller Rinaudo (update: video embedded)". engadget. January 11, 2013. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
- ^ a b ""People were questioning my sanity": The improbable comeback of Rinaudo Cliffton Rinaudo". Pando. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
- ^ "Zipline (drone delivery)", Wikipedia, November 27, 2019, retrieved November 11, 2023
- ^ "Ep 1. Father of Keller Rinaudo (Entrepreneur): William Phillips Rinaudo – Fathering Excellence".