SWAT Drones Give 23-Year-Old Founder Net Worth Over $100 Million
Thiel fellow Blake Resnick is attempting to corner the niche of public safety drones with his company Brinc.
Brinc’s Lemur 2 drone
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Blake Resnick was 18 when he started to go on calls with Las Vegas’s SWAT team.
He would drive out late at night with law enforcement, deploy drones to watch what worked and what didn’t, and return to his mother’s kitchen to reengineer a new iteration for the next mission. The SWAT team never gave him the vest he was promised.