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Robert Wolf Would Like To Rent You Some Drones

He's got like 300 of these things lying around.

The former chairman and CEO of UBS America has a brand new bag.

Measure, the drone-fleet company cofounded by Wall Streeter Robert Wolf, is launching a nationwide franchise operation.
Measure doesn't make drones. It runs fleets of them which it leases out to farmers, oil companies and others who use them to gather data.

No word if Measure is renting out drones to fly around Stamford with banners attached trolling junior bankers about bonuses, but we assume that he's open to good deals.

A Wall Street big shot is trying to build a drone empire [BI]

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