# Adam Bry

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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.

- Role: Co-founder & CEO, Skydio
- About: Co-founded Skydio, building autonomous drones from research pioneered at MIT and Google’s Project Wing.
- Company: [Skydio](https://realalpha.app/companies/#skydio)
- On X: https://x.com/adampbry

## What Adam Bry said

- [China's sanctions forced Skydio to rebuild its supply chain](https://realalpha.app/s/chinas-sanctions-forced-skydio-to-rebuild-its-supply-chain/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min
  > “The day that they announced the sanctions, they showed up at our battery factory in China and shut it down” — Adam Bry · [8:21](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=501)
- [Skydio made irreversible bets before the technology was proven](https://realalpha.app/s/skydio-made-irreversible-bets-before-the-technology-was/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 3 min
  > “And we built the rolling shutter cameras into the drone before we had solved the algorithms.” — Adam Bry · [45:00](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=2700)
- [Lean teams can grow output without growing headcount](https://realalpha.app/s/lean-teams-can-grow-output-without-growing-headcount/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 4 min
  > “the output within the company grew exponentially over that time as we just got that lean muscle back.” — Adam Bry · [57:28](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=3448)
- [Battery-swapping docks must earn their added complexity](https://realalpha.app/s/battery-swapping-docks-must-earn-their-added-complexity/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 3 min
  > “So something like battery swapping, if it's free and it's perfectly reliable, add some value, but it's not free.” — Adam Bry · [12:43](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=763)
- [Hardware firms can control quality in-house or through suppliers](https://realalpha.app/s/hardware-firms-can-control-quality-in-house-or-through/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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.” — Adam Bry · [49:57](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=2997)
- [A wingtip gimbal keeps the camera clear of the drone's wing](https://realalpha.app/s/a-wingtip-gimbal-keeps-the-camera-clear-of-the-drones-wing/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 2 min
  > “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.” — Adam Bry · [14:58](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=898)
- [New products need a different development process than successors](https://realalpha.app/s/new-products-need-a-different-development-process-than/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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.” — Adam Bry · [32:30](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=1950)
- [Leaders review customer failures to keep product work grounded](https://realalpha.app/s/leaders-review-customer-failures-to-keep-product-work/)
  Relentless · Nov 8, 2026 · 3 min
  > “we literally spend like half an hour looking through videos of things going wrong” — Adam Bry · [38:47](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/?t=2327)

## The episode

- [The Drone Startup That's Outcompeting China | Adam Bry, Skydio](https://realalpha.app/v/nb7EinVtdok/) · Relentless · Nov 8, 2026