Airbound's drone carries more than it weighs, taking on Amazon Prime Air
Not Boring (Packy McCormick) · rss · 2026-09-28
Not Boring profiles Airbound, the drone startup founded by 21-year-old Naman Pushp (backed by Greenoaks, Lightspeed, Lachy Groom).
Payload-to-weight contrast
- Amazon Prime Air's 83-lb drone carries just 5 lbs (0.06x); Zipline P2 is 0.15x
- Airbound's TRT weighs 1.5kg and carries 1kg (0.67x); the new V2 carries 5kg with a 1.67x ratio — more than its own weight
Vision
- Naman taught himself physics, engineering, and manufacturing on YouTube during COVID; his goal is a universal flying vehicle faster than trains, more versatile than cars, cheaper than buses
- The route is extreme lightweight eVTOL design rather than Amazon's heavy-lift approach
Author Packy McCormick is an early investor and argues improving transportation may matter more to daily life than AI.
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