Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, a professional drone services marketplace, and a fascinated observer of the emerging drone industry and the regulatory environment for drones. While he’s a believer – and a stakeholder – in the industry’s potential, he doesn’t believe that regulations are what’s preventing the space from taking off. On a recent windy autumn day in New York City, I tagged along with Colin Guinn, the chief innovation officer at DJI, to Washington Square Park in lower Manhattan. Founder @ Guinn Partners. Miriam has a degree from the University of Chicago and over 20 years of experience in high tech sales and marketing for new technologies. It wasn’t so long since that we had no choice but to Photoshop an imaginary image of what 3D Robotics future tutorials would look like with Colin Guinn back at the helm of a multicopter marketing team, however, now it’s for real. “It has to be a clean adoption cycle and a clean user experience,” says Guinn. And that’s what industry needs.”, The regulations don’t worry Guinn. The injunction suggests the relationship between Colin and DJI Global has fallen apart following a refusal to sell his stake holding. When the sunflower detects an intruder, it determines whether the event meets the customer – defined threshold for notification: then it launches the drone – the  Bee – and streams data to the homeowner, the homeowner’s security firm, or wherever the customer chooses. Owner @ Build Design Print. Colin Guinn I Linkedln CRO 3D Robotics Feb 2014 - sep 2016 • 2 yrs 8 mos Austin, Texas Area 3D Robotics develops innovative, flexible and reli everyday exploration and business applications. About Colin Guinn is a serial entrepreneur and high tech product development expert. Currently the chief revenue officer at 3D Robotics (3DR), Colin Guinn is a major advocate of the drone industry and has held positions at DJI North America and testified before Congress. b) Scraping DJI North America’s videos from YouTube and Vimeo and placing them on DJI Global’s website, treating those videos as if DJI Global created them. Prior to Guinn Partners, Colin founded Austin startup, Hangar Technolog. That explains the struggles and rise of DJI. I love how they’re positioned and I love where they’re sitting. Businesswire has reported on the injunction: http://www.businesswire.com/news/elpasotimes/20140128006692/en. Today Colin Guinn announced (via LinkedIn) the news that has been on the industry grapevine for some months now, the fact he’s leaving 3D Robotics (or 3DR as they now prefer to be called). c*****@aveanmedia.com Show email and phone number. 3DR's I-JAV platforms capture breathtaking aerial i CEO DJI Innovations Nov 2010 - Feb 2014 3 … But if you are selling an $800 drone, people expect it to be easy to use and perfect right out of the box.”, “Once you start making lower cost systems, the more of them you make – and any bugs or issues come to surface immediately. From serving as CEO of DJI North America to his role as Chief Revenue Officer at 3DR to the founding of Hangar, Colin has experience in the consumer and commercial sides of the industry that few can match. Colin is a 48% share holder in Dajiang North America Ltd with Tao “Frank” Wang owning the remaining 52% share holding, Tao is the CEO of DJI Global. “It’s because I drew so many parallels between what Sunflower Labs is doing and what DJI was doing in the beginning.”, Guinn describes a reality of manufacturing, which he calls “the bullshit tolerance threshold”: “It’s how much BS people are willing to put up with to figure out how to extract value from a product,” he explains. Founder @ Hangar Technology. “It makes perfect sense why the consumer drones took off, and then the early adopter of the commercial industry – video production – followed,” explains Guinn. In May 2013, DJI Global approached Colin offering to buy out his 48% interest in Dajiang North America Ltd (in effect DJI North America) in exchange for a 0.3% in DJI Global, Colin immediately rejected the offer because he felt it undervalued his interested in DJI North America. It’s been the chatter on various forums for a short while now, with Colin Guinn vanishing from DJI there’s been speculation as to the reason. Colin Guinn's Email. It’s been the chatter on various forums for a short while now, with Colin Guinn vanishing from DJI there’s been speculation as to the reason. “The FAA has put their hand up and said that they understand that drones bring significant value. Most recently, Colin approached the team at Sunflower Labs, a provider of autonomous home security drones, and has now become one of the startup’s board members. It became clear there was a serious legal dispute on the 22nd of January 2014 when Colin took out an injunction against DJI Global to prevent them from supplying new stock to 31 authorised DJI retailers/resellers in the United States. DJI Phantom Vision! See what Colin Guinn, former CEO of DJI Drone N.A. PrecisionHawk launched PrecisionMapper, a cloud-based application “allowing anyone to upload, share and process aerial image data”. Drones, basically, that carry cameras instead of guns. It is alleged following this actions took place including: a) Misappropriating all the revenue in DJI North America’s account without providing DJI North America anything in exchange. Breaking Drone News - DJI North America's Colin Guinn vs DJI China. The full details of the injunction are attached and are a PDF copy taken from a post on the DJI Phantom Owners Page on Facebook. c) Providing UAVs secretly to DJI North America’s customers while misrepresenting to DJI North America that there was a backlog in production. That’s when every single construction site, every farm, every mine will have a drone on site. Austin, Texas, United States. Colin speaks candidly about his interestes, what happened at DJI and 3DR. “We’re getting there, it’s going to happen.”. Drone Swarms for Firefighting: the Future of Fire Supression? Skydio Whitepaper: Why Have Most Drones Failed to Uproot Traditional Methods of Inspection? Colin Guinn is a major name in the drone industry, holding positions at industry giants DJI and 3DR. Immediately.”, That’s where Sunflower Labs also holds an advantage. Si chiamerà così la prossima generazione di quadricotteri Phantom. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles focused on the commercial drone space and is an international speaker and recognized figure in the industry. Delivering …, By: Dawn M.K Zoldi The buzz around drone swarms, multiple unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) capable of coordinating their …, A project using drones for trash clean up in Denmark could show the way to saving the oceans …, Parrot and Rapid Imaging brings AR situational awareness to professional drone users Advanced geospatial augmented reality overlays now …, Are drone swarms for firefighting the future of fire supression? His resume is nothing less than extraordinary, CEO and founder of DJI… Read More » For those of you that don’t know Colin Guinn, he is one of the drone industries most influential people. In Frank’s [DJI Founder Frank Wang] DNA is a real love for flight – he wants people to experience that, and that’s where the consumer drones come from.”. “I am looking through that same lens when you look at Sunflower Labs. Prior to joining 3DR, Colin Guinn founded the North American branch of DJI… I recently started hearing rumors about a rift between DJI China and DJI North America and just uncovered this press release. and CRO of 3D Robotics Inc. has to say about the technology on Micro Drone 4.0. 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A serial entrepreneur, he founded Austin startup Hangar, a partner-integrated platform providing automated end-to-end drone services. Join Facebook to connect with Colin Guinn and others you may know. "That'll be interesting for them." Sunflower Labs, says Colin, has developed a product he’s thought about for a long time – a home or light industrial security solution using drones. Prior to that he worked as Chief Revenue Officer at 3D Robotics, the leading open source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology company. They aren’t selling a cool drone, they’re competing against fixed security cameras with expensive installation and operating costs. f) Disabling DJI North America’s access to both its Facebook and Twitter accounts. ”. DJI, explained Mr Guinn, is a firm that develops and engineers small unmanned aerial vehicles that are meant to carry cameras. While his status as a reality TV star makes him a household name around the world (and ups his cool factor through the roof), Colin Guinn is also famous in the drone industry, having served as Chief Revenue Officer at 3D Robotics and as co-founder and and CEO of DJI North America. From the way it sounds, DJI China is acting extremely shady. 1/28/2014 Comments . There is an interesting article on Forbes.com. Colin Guinn is currently the Founder of Hangar Technology, a software company building an automated platform for drones to deliver fast and professional aerial data across several commercial verticals, such as Construction, Infrastructure Inspection, Mining, Agriculture, and Real Estate. In questo video potete vedere un'anteprima del nuovo modello. Most of the problems they are trying to tackle are customers that are angry that their product is not working properly, and their customer service is almost obsolete. By Holly Hansen. “Interestingly, it’s an inverse curve – if you are selling something for $100,000, customers expect to invest time in it. That’s because he’s doing a return appearance on Season 31 of The Amazing Race – a reality TV … Recently, Colin reached out to Alex Pachikov, CEO of Sunflower Labs, at CES. That’s because he’s doing a return appearance on Season 31 of The Amazing Race – a reality TV show where teams race to complete the 25,000 mile journey around the world. It’s kind of hard to get in touch with Colin Guinn. “Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) shouldn’t really mean I can fly beyond where I can see – it should mean that I don’t have to be there looking at it,” he points out. Before diving into the nuts and bolts of the Solo, it's important to note that Guinn is kind of at the center of this new rivalry. “Where we will see a massive change is when we can get the human out of the equation – when things can happen fully autonomously. “The regulations are coming,” he says. The leadership team at Sunflower Labs comes from leading consumer app company Evernote – and that, says Guinn, combined with a low price point and a consumer market, positions the company for exponential growth. “You can’t go into an existing enterprise and say, “Stop what you are doing for a few months and learn drones!”  The workflows today are still completely broken – you have to be a pretty hard core geek or engineer to go through the entire process, it’s just not a push button solution. “They’re smaller, they’re safer, they’re lighter, they’re lower altitude – it’s a perfect application.”, Parallels With DJI: the Bullshit Tolerance Threshold, “I sought out Sunflower Labs, they didn’t come to me – and it wasn’t because I was so excited about protecting my house with a drone,” says Guinn. DJI & Colin Guinn settle out of court. I don’t think that regulations are going to be the long pole in the tent – it’s going to be developing really easy workflows for people to get to their insights.”, Guinn points out that development of truly autonomous systems is still ongoing – and the regulations aren’t really behind. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. An Interview with Colin Guinn – Part 1 Few people have been involved with the drone industry in so many different ways as Colin Guinn. All Rights Reserved. “Drones are so ideally suited for security, that it’s surprising that you don’t hear more about it,” says Pachikov. e) Contacting all of DJI North America’s customers while mispresenting to DJI North America that there was a backlog in production. They look like small garden lights, but the they can identify people, animals or cars coming on to the property – and can distinguish between a human intruder or an animal by the vibration of the human gait. Albeit with Tao Wang being a 52% shareholder, such access surely could not have been refused? In this brief interview, the beguiling Colin Guinn of 3DR speaks to the many benefits of using the Solo. They’re competing on a value solution of property awareness.”. In 2011, Wang met Colin Guinn at a trade show, and the two of them founded DJI North America, a subsidiary company focusing on mass market drone sales. Posts about Colin Guinn written by eightrotors. For drone industry consulting or writing, Email Miriam. Featured in publications like 60 Minutes, TechCrunch, and Fast Company; Colin is a world-renowned expert on robots and technology. The percentage on offer was described as miniscule, with DJI Global being alleged to have offered no detail on percentage other than saying it “felt right in their hearts” and it is further alleged if the offer was refused DJI Global would simply render DJI North America worthless. The rest, as they say, was history. It talks about DJI North America and the relationship and departure of Colin Guinn. Colin Guinn was the global face of DJI on YouTube, known for his tutorials on using the Phantom, he specifically credited his team for DJI’s 27,000 Facebook likes and 30,000 YouTube subscribers and millions of views in the injunction against DJI that was filed on 22nd of January 2014. “People tend to forget, but DJI’s first product ever was a $12,000 autopilot, attached to a $20,000 drone,” says Guinn.