A Discussion with Open Source Defense

T.REX TALK

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Technology

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A conversation that ranges from how tech companies are able to qrow so quickly, to why social media companies have adopted certain policies, to what we need next in the gun industry.

Open Source Defense is one of our favorite companies in the Gun Rights space, so we've been looking forward to this conversation with Chuck and Kareem, two of the founders with a long background of work in some of Silicon Valley's biggest companies. OSD does a number of different things behind the scenes, but they also publish a fantastic newsletter that you should be subscribed to.

Chuck is also speaking about Meta's ad and content policies at the SHOT Show University, so you can see him there.

Keep in touch with us here: https://trex-arms.com/newsletter/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another T-Rex talk. Today, I have not in the studio, but remotely, good conversation
0:06.3	with the guys, some of the guys from open source defense. Open source defense is a lot of different
0:11.0	things, but one of my favorite things is the email newsletter. It is my favorite email newsletter.
0:17.3	It's definitely my favorite gun industry email newsletter. The articles that you guys have are
0:22.8	fascinating and helpful, but you do a lot more than that. So we'll be covering some of that.
0:28.0	So I would like my guests to introduce themselves just so I don't accidentally use a name
0:33.2	that I'm not supposed to or confuse the audiences to who is who. So, Chuck, if you would introduce yourself.
0:38.8	Sure.
0:39.3	So I'm Chuck R.
0:40.9	We'll go that far.
0:42.6	And one of the co-founders of Open Source Defense since about 2018.
0:47.7	I've had a long history in the tech world.
0:49.8	I'm mainly a tech person.
0:51.6	Had a really good career, starting with places like IBM Research,
0:56.7	VMware, which started the cloud revolution back in the 90s, an early employee at Google,
1:04.0	early employee at Facebook, and spent the last 11 years at Facebook before I left in 2018 working in big engineering
1:13.5	projects and infrastructure, software infrastructure, but also worked for the last two years
1:19.7	at Facebook trying to get some sanity into the firearms policy, both for advertising and
1:26.5	content.
1:27.8	So most of the action that you saw from 2018 onwards to about to present day are still
1:34.6	kind of decisions and things I helped set up to some degree with policy and whatnot.
1:40.3	And I still actively work with the NSSF, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, to help companies, firearm companies or outdoor companies in this space to keep their stuff up and running on social media, at least on meta's platforms.
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