How startups feel transfer to Trump 2.0

Not every day that many of the companies I really cover come to me And the small city decided to call the house. But once a year-when the VC, which focuses on transportation, hosts this event (this year with Wal Mart The heirs Tom Stewar Walton as participating hosts)-they do so completely.

I have spent the last two days looking at the commercial space station at startups, wide plans to send to the course of next year; Simulation of flights to Joby Aviation and Seaglider’s Regent; And sitting on the other side of the son of the founder of Robinhood Baiju Bhatt in models of blue spacecraft capsule, which sends people to space. The new Cybercab was in Tesla, and two of its Optimus robots, here to come to calm down, and laughed with the chief designers of Tesla Franz von Holshausen on the stage about the accident when the Cyberrtruck initial in 2019, when he threw a steel ball in the window.

The energy is always high in this annual event – partially due to Up.partners Costers Cyrus Sigari, enthusiastically and enthusiastically for flights and gates. But there was something else that continued to appear in the conversations this year: Donald Trump.

If you are interested in transport and aviation industries for any amount of time – car bitten! Mars missions! Self -government aircraft! – You know that enthusiasm around these glossy and glossy games can dry quickly when you think about the enormous organizational obstacles that still lie between these companies and many of their products coming to the market in the United States, here is an example: three years ago in this same event, Zipline CEO Keeler Raynodo Clifton was celebrating dozens of his company from thousands of drones in Africa. Flash forward to this day and still can’t send anything to my house from the company, although my house is about 15 minutes’ drive from one of their delivery sites. Executive managers of transport companies have long been floundered through questions about providing certificates and timelines for the product, as there is a lot out of their control completely.

But these days, the organizational piece actually started to feel more investigation with many companies that play the waiting game. Adam Woodworth, the Wing CEO, Alphabet’s Drone Delivery, described on the stage how his team is in the early stages of increasing their delivery operations to several cities across the country. I was surprised to hear the CEO of innovation at Walmart, Greg Cathy is very rude about Wal -Mart Plan To bring the delivery of drones to the “most areas we work in” due to changes in the organizational environment. Adam Goldstein, CEO of Air Taxi Startup Archer Aviation, told me about joining Evtol Integration Plot for the White House, a group that was assembled after one of Trump’s executive orders prompted the Federal Aviation Department to accelerate the process of obtaining air taxis in the sky. The CEO of Regent, an emerging company to build sea ships to the people who are transported to people – and gospels – despite the coasts, said that the speed and clarity that his company received responses from the Coast Guard was important since Trump was elected.

All this enthusiasm has its limits, of course. Only yesterday, the EV tax credit moved away – a noticeable loss of EV companies such as Tesla, Slate Auto and Scout, which was all present at the Bentonville event. Even for some of the most clear beneficiaries in the technology agenda in the Trump administration, it is not all milk and roses. Woodworth CEO has been happy to see the new list on flying beyond the visual sight – initially.

“We were less enthusiastic when we started reading it, because there are a lot of steps at this rule,” Woodworth said on stage, noting that there was already a lot of progress made between industry and organizers at that time since the formulation of the initial rule.

Regardless of politics, everyone is excited to talk about what comes after that – and the money they still want investors to achieve this. I am sure to laugh when I got to my electronic bike-at a transport conference, there is no place to stop my bike, and everyone seemed to be confusing, what I should do.

Even next time,

Jessica Matthews
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