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Adam Bry

Co-founder & CEO, Skydio

Co-founded Skydio, building autonomous drones from research pioneered at MIT and Google’s Project Wing.

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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Adam Bry (Co-founder & CEO, Skydio) talking, from an interview on Relentless published Nov 8, 2026.

What Adam Bry said

  1. Relentless ·

    The Drone Startup That's Outcompeting China | Adam Bry, Skydio

    8 moments · 25 min

    1. 7:04

      China's sanctions forced Skydio to rebuild its supply chain

      “The day that they announced the sanctions, they showed up at our battery factory in China and shut it down”
      at 8:21
    2. 42:34

      Skydio made irreversible bets before the technology was proven

      “And we built the rolling shutter cameras into the drone before we had solved the algorithms.”
      at 45:00
    3. 56:01

      Lean teams can grow output without growing headcount

      “the output within the company grew exponentially over that time as we just got that lean muscle back.”
      at 57:28
    4. 11:40

      Battery-swapping docks must earn their added complexity

      “So something like battery swapping, if it's free and it's perfectly reliable, add some value, but it's not free.”
      at 12:43
    5. 49:05

      Hardware firms can control quality in-house or through suppliers

      “if you want to be building like world-leading hardware capability reliably at scale, you need to have a lot of control over everything that's going into your product.”
      at 49:57
    6. 14:12

      A wingtip gimbal keeps the camera clear of the drone's wing

      “when the airplane is banked and turning and orbiting, once per revolution, that wing is going to block the field of view of the camera.”
      at 14:58
    7. 30:56

      New products need a different development process than successors

      “The successor to X10, our current flagship drone, needs to come out of the gate with better reliability than this thing, which is already a hard and mature platform.”
      at 32:30
    8. 36:41

      Leaders review customer failures to keep product work grounded

      “we literally spend like half an hour looking through videos of things going wrong”
      at 38:47

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