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A podcast about drones and the people behind them. An educational and entertaining take on the current state of drones and what flies ahead in the drone world.
Mark Masterton (00:00)
Drone as the Future is made in partnership with Drone as a Service. Make your survey, mapping, or inspections safer, faster, and more efficient with the help of our team. Elevate what's possible with droneaservice.com.
Linda Montgomery (00:15)
It's like any job that's that's dull, dirty, or d or dangerous, you should be using a drone.
Mark Masterton (00:20)
Today on Drone is the Future, our guest is Linda Montgomery, VP of Corporate Development at Xenetech. We chat about the origins of Xenetech, how they went public on Nasdaq, and their revolutionary drone as a service brand. Also, how new drone rules could revolutionize the future of the industry.
Linda Montgomery (00:37)
We were primarily a software company, we really had no revenue from drones yet.
Mark Masterton (00:41)
thrown in at the deep end. How many companies have you taken public?
Linda Montgomery (00:44)
Gino
Tech would be my sixth company I've taken public. A couple of companies in California and wants to incorporate drones and vineyards. Okay.
Mark Masterton (00:51)
More wine for all of us to enjoy?
Linda Montgomery (00:53)
Basically.
No, I can see the drones in my mind.
Mark Masterton (00:59)
You can feel it, right? Yeah. And through the speaker, sounds incredible. Welcome to the podcast.
Linda Montgomery (01:04)
Thank you.
Mark Masterton (01:05)
Welcome to the drone as the future podcast.
Linda Montgomery (01:07)
Nice.
Mark Masterton (01:08)
Linda, let's let's start off by getting to know you. Let's get behind the scenes, uncover the mask, and tell me whereabouts are you from?
Linda Montgomery (01:17)
Where am I from? Where am I from? Well,
Mark Masterton (01:19)
Good question.
Linda Montgomery (01:20)
I grew up in Winnipeg. Okay. Manitoba. Mm-hmm. Since you ask. so I well, I I lead corporate development, which includes investor relations at Xenotech. I've spent my entire career in the in the tech industry from I guess one of my first jobs was with IBM and I had the opportunity to work for IBM in New Zealand and Hong Kong. And then I came back to work for IBM
in Toronto, IBM Canada, product management kind of roles and marketing roles. And then I parlayed that into working with lots of emerging tech companies leading marketing and leading business development and I've taken a few companies public as well. So investor relations has been part of what I've done for for a number of years. And
Mark Masterton (02:14)
How many companies have you taken public?
Linda Montgomery (02:17)
I've taken well, Xenotech would be my sixth company I've taken public.
Mark Masterton (02:22)
Was that your mission when you first joined Cene Tech? What wha what was the what was your objective? How did you end up with Centerech?
Linda Montgomery (02:27)
My Yeah,
so I joined Xenetech in the summer of two thousand and twenty four. And that was right before we went public at the beginning of October of that year. And so I joined I joined to get the company ready to go public. And I was employee number three in Canada. And so we have something like seventy five employees now, short period of time.
Mark Masterton (02:53)
How
Linda Montgomery (02:55)
Yes.
Mark Masterton (02:56)
was that getting I mean, you had months to prepare for a Nasdaq listing, that must have been pretty high pressure.
Linda Montgomery (03:01)
I didn't have very much time actually. given the amount of work that had to be done. I mean, it w I was really putting the key messaging and putting the website together. I mean, we were primarily a a software company that was been working on drones for a while, but we really had no revenue from drones yet. It was it was tricky positioning. And and so it it took some time to
to craft that story and we didn't actually do an IPO, we did a direct listing. And so differ.
Mark Masterton (03:35)
What do they do?
Linda Montgomery (03:36)
How do they differ? Well with an IPO, usually you have you prepare for that years in advance sometimes, and certainly months in advance and and you basically do a road roadshow I guess where you where you go to different you go and meet with different institutional investors and
often retail investors and investment advisors. Right. You do a roadshow to introduce your company. Okay. And and before the time that you go public and usually you do often you do a fundraise when you do an IPO. We didn't need to raise money. So we just did a direct listing on Nasdaq and we just uplisted and here we are. And so we didn't have the we didn't have the luxury of of having our of of being a r around and having, you know, our story known by
investor audiences we had to we had to build that, you know, post post going public.
Mark Masterton (04:32)
So, after taking those companies public in Canada, how did it differ differentiate in terms of scale taking this company on Nasdaq? That there's a much wider investor audience with Nasdaq, right? Yeah. How is that different?
Linda Montgomery (04:46)
Yeah.
So it's a it's a lot different. I think the US is something like ten times the population size of Canada. it but it's it's it's a it's a larger and and it's a larger group of in investors versus in in Canada.
Mark Masterton (05:05)
Was it daunting making it public in America? Helping
Linda Montgomery (05:09)
I wouldn't say.
Mark Masterton (05:10)
to get your story correct and craft the narrative. Was it
how did you overcome that?
Linda Montgomery (05:17)
I guess I had done the five IPOs I've done prior to that was in Canada. Certainly for me it was a revelation to realize how much to really realize how much lo larger and the l how much larger the investor base is in in the US. And so we we just had to take a l a lot of time to to spend to to do investor conferences and of course and that's only part of it. I mean certainly
the the marketing side of what you need to do to communicate your opportunity and strategy to investors is is quite there's quite a you know a a lot of that. Also you'll find we have a large population of retail investors and so they're certainly they're on they're on Reddit, they're on Discord channels, they're you know they're they're part of lots of different investor communities, so you wanna get out to to those investors and
And you want to tell your story to the the institutions and funds because ultimately you want you want those you want those larger investors also as you become a more mature company and your market cap becomes larger. You you want to get on their radars and and and you want you want them to h hold your stock as well.
Mark Masterton (06:39)
Can we take things back slightly to the beginning of the Zenetech story and how things started in 2017, 2018, and how they got to going public on Nasdaq? What was going on before then?
Linda Montgomery (06:50)
Yeah. It's an interesting origin story. Company was primarily a software. Yep. Had a a number of different software brands. And so back in two thousand seventeen, eighteen, there was they had a supply chain software product. they were trying to track male and female hemp plants and doing this work in Ireland and and wanted they w they were try incorporate a drone to help them
Do that as far as part of supply chain management and tracking. You know, would have been our R Sean Pasley, our our founder, and Simon Henry, who's our European business development leader. And they were realized that how difficult it was to f to set up a drone and organize that drone to be able to do that work. And they realized, well, there's a hole in the market here.
Why don't we develop our own drones? And hence we've had an and and and hence the idea to become a drone company and I guess we we've been working on solutions working on crafting and refining our drone solutions since then.
Mark Masterton (08:03)
And now that drone has become the focus of the company, in particular drone as a service, this is a relatively new concept. But I mean we can liken it to like software as a service, Amazon Web Services, for example, but how how does what is drone as a service, if you could put it in a nutshell?
Linda Montgomery (08:23)
So drone as a service was the concept that Sean Pasley, our CEO, had I think a number of years ago. He trademarked drone as a service dot com. Okay. So, you know, he had the clarity of vision to to know that this was going to be an important the an important need. and so it really it really wa was him. and and then, you know, we're growing drone as a service by acquiring land survey engineering companies just as a first first
service that we're we're starting off with and
Mark Masterton (08:57)
Can talk to me a little bit about the the acquisition strategy? 'Cause it's it's they're motoring through many acquisitions. This past year there's been many. Every it seems like every public announcement there's a brand new company that Zenetech has acquired. So can you tell me a little bit behind the thinking?
Linda Montgomery (09:13)
Sure, yeah, we've done twenty of them in our first year since we launched this at the beginning of last year. And so land surveys, I mean this is a really great place to start because a land surveys if for first of all, it's it it's a it's an industry where it's a pretty fragmented industry and it's lots of what you would call mom and pop land survey engineering.
companies and so they don't really don't have the wherewithal to or you know the financial ability to incorporate drones. And so it it makes it a great a great sector to for for an acquisition strategy because you've got all of these businesses that have recurring revenue, they're profitable businesses and and and there's room to innovate what they do to improve the margins.
and improve the revenue. We're you know integrating our drones with the pr with the workflow of doing a a land survey and and also providing some centralized services as well for analyzing the data and you want to get the information back to your the land survey back to your customers as quickly as possible. So it's just a a perfect perfect industry that's just ripe for ripe for innovation. and so
Mark Masterton (10:37)
And is that acquisition strategy gonna continue into the new year? Is there are there more targets for this year? I've also saw that Zenotech recently acquired a power washing company
Linda Montgomery (10:47)
Yes.
Mark Masterton (10:47)
as well. Is that another industry that the company's
Linda Montgomery (10:50)
Yeah,
yeah, we're just starting off with land surveys. But yes, we definitely power washing's another one. And we we've acquired a company that focuses on does a lot of work in the area of solar infrastructure and maintenance and inspection of of of of solar solar company infrastructure. And then also agriculture, we've acquired a company in a couple of companies in California and and one that's wants to incorporate drones for
using in vineyards to manage yields and and improve the work that that they do there.
Mark Masterton (11:30)
In the wine industry. I didn't see that coming. Could that greater yield more more wine for all of us to enjoy, hopefully?
Linda Montgomery (11:37)
Maybe? Yeah.
Mark Masterton (11:41)
can we just go back a little bit as well and talk about how things changed after the company went public? Because going to Investor Converters before everybody knew who Xenotech was and now believe the story is very different.
Linda Montgomery (12:00)
Yeah, we just had Beery and Sun. We read a an event called DealFlow, which is an annual investor event for microcap companies. We went last year, 2025, and we were really telling our story. Not too many institutional investors or funds or attendees there knew who we were. This
Mark Masterton (12:19)
And when was this? This was
Linda Montgomery (12:20)
was January of twenty twenty five. Okay. And so we were just there this year, January twenty twenty six, and it was just entirely different.
We had a whole these investor conferences are all a whole day of one on one meetings, you do one after another and any sort of like that that kind of thing. And so we found this year we had there are many, many c companies who already knew us who held our stock. and and and actually we had number of companies that all wanted to give us growth capital as well. So
Mark Masterton (12:55)
What's changed, do you think, in the past year? Wha how how I mean, going public obviously. But so much more
Linda Montgomery (13:00)
Right. I
I I think that it is I I think that we're we're we've certainly raised our our profile. And then I think we're kind of seen as one of the up and coming drone companies. I mean there's a lot of drone companies today that investors are very familiar with, like Redcat and Dragon Dragonfly and and then you've got the ones that
you the aero environment and and Kratos, those are sort of big, big ones and with the fence play is what they're all about. So I think investors are becoming more more familiar with our story. They see the growth opportunity in the drone market. They see that we're doing unique things and we're executing. So we s we're we're saying what we're gonna do and then we're doing it, which is what you want to do. And and so I think our drone as a service is a pretty unique
We're pretty unique in in the vision we have for that and the way and and the speed in which we're rolling that out. And then also on the other side the other really important area is is defense markets. So we are, you know, in the process of of of doing business with or selling our our drones to the to the US Department of War and and other and other agencies and it's kind of a longer process where, you know
maybe year two in a four year process or just you know, generally. and so I think investors see that we're see our ambition in in in that marketplace as well and they're excited to excited about our story and excited about our prospects.
Mark Masterton (14:44)
What what steps are they taking to approach the the US government? How are they getting closer?
Linda Montgomery (14:54)
Yes. So so ultimately our goal is you know sustainable annual recurring revenue with the US you know federal government with the federal government, but th there is a timeline to get there. Yeah. So the first thing we're focused on is getting a green and blue UAS certi certification.
Mark Masterton (15:17)
Tell me a bit more about those.
Linda Montgomery (15:23)
basically this is the this is what you need to get to be on the procurement list. Okay. And it's basically cybersecurity controls. It just you sort of gives you the check mark that you've got the right and and the right level of of advanced cybersecurity controls and also country of origin because it's very important that that that your component parts that you use in your drones
Drones are what we call NDAA compliant, just meaning that so I I guess last December the there was the FAA did a a an update and and actually said that there's certain covered foreign countries where where that are banned. And and the drone industry is really dominated by the Chinese
companies, they really pioneered the industry. And even it's a drone maker. It's hard to even from for many companies it's it's hard to develop a drone without a Chinese part somewhere in your drone. So that's not allowed anymore and it really helps US drone makers and we plan to be one of those.
Mark Masterton (16:38)
So
it's it's a big area for growth and opportunity then, this this rule change.
Linda Montgomery (16:44)
For US drone makers now? Yes. So we're building a manufacturing and assembly facility in Arizona and that's where we're gonna be developing our our our drones for domestic and and certainly for US government purposes.
Mark Masterton (16:58)
You've been at the company
Linda Montgomery (17:03)
A year and a half.
Mark Masterton (17:05)
But it seems like a lot has changed.
Linda Montgomery (17:07)
It seems like and I've said this from the beginning at Xenotech, one month feels like three months.
Mark Masterton (17:13)
Can you talk to me a little bit about that? Well,
Linda Montgomery (17:15)
W
our business changes and evolves so quickly. Yeah. It really does. Yeah.
Mark Masterton (17:20)
Yeah. And what makes Zenotech in particular unique in the way that it operates?
Linda Montgomery (17:24)
Well we're we're a company that's a we're building vertically integrated AI autonomy platforms. So that just means we like to be we like to be developing we design and and and manufacture our drones and also our component parts. So we have three manufacturing facilities. One of them is in Taiwan just because we want to have those NDAA compliant parts. It's a friendly country to the US and we can we can we can you know use those
those parts in our US US based products.
Mark Masterton (17:57)
Just keeping it on the topic of regulations and how that's important and how customers for drone as a service don't have to worry about that necessarily because Zenotech looks after that. there are some regulations that are changing in the coming year that could revolutionize the whole industry. Like now is a good time to get into drones, particularly because of how beyond visual line of sight rules are changing. Can you tell us how Xenotech, Xenotrone is at the forefront of that and why it's a good time
To get into the business now.
Linda Montgomery (18:29)
Right. So yeah, from an FAA perspective, there's have been many changes that have been worked on by the industry, many industry players for a long time. So this year is going to be the the year where we see regulation on the on the beyond the visual line of sight side. And that means that in in a nutshell, more of the airspace is opening up for drones and air traffic control has got to be part of it too if you're talking about beyond the visual
line of of of sight of of flying drones. So we're seeing we're seeing that regulation and and then also other areas and defense which is really important to us is that procurement, the procurement side of i is also becoming more streamlined and it's being made easier for for companies to sell to the to the military. you know, drones are
considered expendable and and and expendable assets and commodities, particularly the small and medium size drones. So you sh you shouldn't have like gone are going to be the ten year ten year you know cycles of procurement cycles of of the th that we've seen in the past. so so we're seeing we're seeing that that's a very important tailwind that's really helping
drone makers. And then of course there's a lot of there's a lot more there's policy directives around favoring American made American-made drones. So we're capitalizing on we plan to capitalize on all of those trends.
Mark Masterton (20:11)
You you've had meetings with government.
Linda Montgomery (20:12)
We have is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. Just so they just relationship building, really. Yeah.
Mark Masterton (20:19)
Why why is th are those contracts so important with companies?
Linda Montgomery (20:22)
Because military contracts are are you know long term, they'll be very important to our company.
Mark Masterton (20:31)
Talk
about growth just briefly. Looking forward to the future now is particularly a good time to get into the drone business. Seems to be growing every single year at the moment. but talk about Xenotech as a company and how it's grown. You were employee number three, that was twenty twenty five. Now how many employees do it do you have in
Linda Montgomery (20:49)
Canada.
Well in Canada we have I don't know, seventy five maybe. And I think we're north of five hundred around the world.
Mark Masterton (20:56)
that along with the landscaping acquisitions as well as the acquisitions
Linda Montgomery (21:01)
Survey acquisitions. Yeah.
Mark Masterton (21:04)
as well as all the offices that are opening up worldwide. Can you speak to me a little bit about how the company's growing and extending its footprint
Linda Montgomery (21:12)
Yeah,
so I think we're growing geographically. Our product set is growing and and the our a c our customer markets that we are are engaging with are are growing as well. So we've always been somewhat international. We have an off well, as well as North America, Arizona, we've had we've long had a sales office there. We've got our administration happens in Chicago and and
we're what's called a foreign private issuer, so we're registered in Canada officially. and so now with drone as a service we've got a number of different locations, nineteen of them in the in the US. drone as a service locations that will be that we're currently, you know, integrating our integrating with our drones and and these will be branded locations that will be that that
that we're in in the community for for a drone as a service.
Mark Masterton (22:15)
If people need drone as a service for their company, they can visit a a concrete store and figure out a resolution for their company.
Linda Montgomery (22:22)
Right.
Okay. Right. And then in Europe, we have a software company that we've long had out of Berlin, so we have an office there. And Dublin we've had an office for quite a while and we're we are building a drone as a service location there and our our business development leader for for Europe in the Amir region is is based out of Dublin. And then we have we've been doing manufacturing in Charjah.
which is near Dubai for for a number of years and we have a twenty two thousand square foot facility there. And also in nearby in Dubai they were they're developing a drone as a service location there and they want to focus on on a number of services including cleaning, power washing. And then in in Taiwan we've op we opened that office
at the beginning of last of of last year. So in Taiwan is where we manufacture our component parts like PCB boards and motors, cameras, and a number of those component parts. And they're growing. They're but they're commissioning a new facility right now to do that. and so so that's kind of our international level. So I forgot about the UK and that we do have two offices there. We we one of our software companies
is near London and we have a drone as a service that's in Bristol. Near Bristol. Okay.
Mark Masterton (23:56)
Yeah. so
Linda Montgomery (23:59)
But
that's just geographically. Okay. If I can go a little further, talk about our products. So Cinodrone one thousand is our large it's a heavy lift cargo drone, defense ready drone for a number of applications, you know, cargo precious cargo in the field and blood. There's a kind of a it can be it can carry temperature controlled. But the
Mark Masterton (24:23)
It's the flagship drone, right?
Linda Montgomery (24:25)
large drone, yes.
and so that's we're planning to use for inspection, surveillance, reconnaissance, border patrol, those kinds of applications. And then we have the IQ s series of drones. And the smallest one there is the IQ nano, which starts at twenty by twenty inches. And that's our drone we use for inventory management in s indoors. So it takes reads the barcodes and and and improves the speed and the precision of inventory management. And so we're seeing a lot of opportunity for that drone. We're we're at the p we're
all our bones, we're at the pilot stage currently, like paid pilots. and we see opportunity for that drone in the government and also with defense organizations, US defense organizations as well.
Mark Masterton (25:11)
Is that the drone that's able to work around human workers as well? Previously
Linda Montgomery (25:15)
Yes.
Mark Masterton (25:16)
that's been a an issue for people who run warehouse.
Linda Montgomery (25:19)
Yeah,
exactly. Exactly. It has its own kind of g indoor GPS system that where it's able to do that. And then the IQ Square is our outdoor inspection drone for the line of sight inspections. That's larger, it's like it starts at about 30 by 30 inch square, and these are all these are all rotary vertical takeoff and landing drones. and then the final one we just announced is the
Quad, the IQ quad, and that's going to be the drone sp that we're used. It's specifically built for doing land surveys. So that product set is is growing. And then and then in terms of our markets too, so our commercial markets, lots of inspections surveying. we want to do more in the area of power washing. We've been acquiring, we acquired a power wash company in Canada. and and so
We're we're we're always, you know, looking at new like low tech industries and we basically we're building this platform and we want to do a variety of different types of drone-based services and through drone as a service. We're certainly going out that that customer set and then and then we also we're looking at you know future places where we'd like to use our drones as well, like oil and gas is an industry we'd like to be focused on, and then mining.
And so, you know, we're not stopping with just what we what we're currently doing. We we do have plans to e to further extend that portfolio of products.
Mark Masterton (26:55)
Drone as the Future is made in partnership with Drone as a Service. Make your survey, mapping, or inspections safer, faster, and more efficient with the help of our team. Elevate what's possible with droneasaservice dot com. Can you talk to me about how Zenotech is incorporating AI technology into their drones and how it's changing the way we use drones?
Linda Montgomery (27:18)
Sure. So drones are really are, you know, cameras are sensors. That's what they are. They're taking in that information all the all the time. And and what they're doing is they're taking in this data that can be plugged into AI models. and then, you know, actionable insights can come out of this. Like for instance, you can use this to the drones today we use to to avoid obstacles in
in real time. And the drones can fly beyond pre programmed flight paths, for instance. And it also enables the drones to be able to adjust to wind and maybe signal loss or things that happen kind of in a dynamic environment. And then
and what you're going to see more and more in the future is drone swarms or fleets of drones. And so that sort of just takes that up a another notch in that we'll be able to have these these these this fleet of drones that can can can have their own independent flight path, but also they can operate together kind of as one. We have R and D teams that are focused on projects around
f wildfire management, of course, AI and and and data analysis is gonna be a big part of of of that, of weather forecasting of and then we're also focused on some advanced applications for for defense using AI. And we have a a facility that we've just we have a division called Xena AI, which you just established and we're just building now in
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So we're really focused on military applications w of AI and drones and AI. And then and then when you start talking about the all the massive amounts of information that drones can t can take in and and that you need to to really develop these these these AI platforms and applications, then you have to talk about quantum computing. and that's kind of a future oriented
need, but you know, it's very expensive to rent time for quantum computing time, so our team has decided that the most cost effective thing to do is to actually build our own five cubit quantum computer. So the so our R and T teams will be focused on doing that. But th these are really, you know, future oriented applications.
Mark Masterton (30:01)
Well, it's important to look ahead to the future as is the theme of the podcast. And it seems like Xenotech's gonna have its finger in many important pies in the future. so why is it a good time now to be investing in in Zenotech with the grown with the drone industry growing as it is and with AI booming as well? Is now a good time to get on the bandwagon and see where this company goes in the next few years?
Linda Montgomery (30:25)
Well, it's the the industry's growing twenty to thirty times, I guess, percent per year. The drone
Mark Masterton (30:32)
Mm-hmm.
Linda Montgomery (30:32)
the drone industry is is a lot of market research analysts have projected that kind of annual growth. twenty to thirty percent, actually, depending on the market research analyst. so it's a it is a very fast growing industry. And you know, there's one market research analyst that pro that
projects that drone as a service could grow to be a $355 billion dollar market in the next ten or so years. so so that was that's a very interesting stack. and so yeah so so so so drones are certainly growing. Regulation is is is a nice tailwind that that you know that's why drones why now and
Then I think there's a lot of opportunity for for drone companies for many many applications like any job that's that's dull, dirty or or dangerous, you should be using a drone. And we're gonna see that more and more moving forward. And then on the defense side, you know, we all know in the last four years that since the Ukraine war that the whole nature of warfare has changed because of drones. And so although we don't do weaponized drones, we do
drones for many other purposes that that the military needs. So blood delivery.
Mark Masterton (31:59)
delivery.
Linda Montgomery (32:00)
Well blood delivery, inventory management, inspection and surveillance, reconnaissance, border patrol. So you know we we're we're focused on trying to find those opportunities and we're actually been engaging with program managers probably since last summer. I mean we're we've been we've been doing that beforehand because we've we've done prior trials
in with the the Air Force and the Navy you know, prior to two thousand and twenty-four. so but but moving forward we're you know we're focused on the on on getting to those pilot programs and then trying to build trying to build so that we can we can eventually get to those sustainable long term contracts with
annual revenue on the on the defence side is the goal.
Mark Masterton (32:56)
Well, it looks like the future's very bright going forward and I wanna thank you for taking me through the story of Xenetech and Xenodrone and taking us right from the beginning and how things have changed and what to look ahead for. And thank you for being a guest on the podcast. Slinda.
Linda Montgomery (33:10)
Thank you. It's my pleasure.
Mark Masterton (33:26)
Appears I'm getting a call from the year twenty one twenty seven. I think it's for you, Linda.
Hello drone
Linda Montgomery (33:35)
What is the future?
Mark Masterton (33:36)
calling in because I was curious on your thoughts on the state of drones in your time
Linda Montgomery (33:41)
Drones have been so integrated.
Mark Masterton (33:42)
in our daily lives. What was holding you back?
May I?
Holding you back all those years, our caller in the year twenty one twenty seven's wanting to know what the holdup is. Can you put their mind at ease?
Linda Montgomery (34:00)
What's the holdup? Well
Mark Masterton (34:04)
We were talking about how the industry's gonna grow and it's gonna grow, but it seems they're getting impatient. What do you can you put a a time frame on when they're gonna be integrated into the world as we know it? Everywhere.
Linda Montgomery (34:17)
I think it's going to be well before then. I think I think in in ten years' time we're gonna see drones pretty integrated into into basic you know inspection and maintenance and we're gonna see drones more so than f fighter jets as part of militaries and
And and I think we'll see indoor drones. You know, we'll we'll see drones inside that will be do will help be helping us do work that you know, clean our house. So yeah, I think we're gonna
Mark Masterton (35:00)
I think they're
gonna be absolutely everywhere. Kind of likening it to like the jumbo jet, how they they figured out how to fly and then all of a sudden airports popping up all over the world. It's it's commonplace to see a plane.
Linda Montgomery (35:15)
Like
everything, like the phone, for instance. What do we do without the phone? We're gonna say, What do we do without the drone? Mm-hmm. How did we manage?
Mark Masterton (35:23)
So you're gonna give it roughly ten years before things are kicking in?
Linda Montgomery (35:28)
Well I think that I think we'll it'll be gradual, but I think in ten years we'll be I mean there'll be no situation like there was in New Jersey in the in the fall of two thousand and twenty four where these drones were flying around and people were were were were thought it was such an anomaly. I think that
that's not gonna happen in anymore. I think that that I think that society will be used to drones and hopefully there'll be so much there's gonna be so much practical practical help and and and value that that they're adding that that our attitudes will change.
Mark Masterton (36:13)
Mm-hmm. Well, that's something to look forward to. Yeah. Well, thank you for taking my call from the future.
Linda Montgomery (36:20)
Yeah. Well, that's first first call like that I've had.
Mark Masterton (36:25)
I'll tell them that they're a bit behind the timers.
Linda Montgomery (36:27)
Yeah.
Mark Masterton (36:36)
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