Drones and the future of public safety, with Brinc CEO Blake Resnick
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🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Blake Resnick built a fusion reactor in his garage at age 14, and interned at McLaren Automotive, Tesla, and DJI, before dropping out of Northwestern University in 2017 to launch drone startup Brinc.
Now, at age 23, he oversees a team of nearly 100 people making drones and other technology for public safety agencies, serving more than 400 customers.
On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, recorded on-location at the company's headquarters in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood, Resnick talks about Brinc’s origins, its move from Las Vegas to Seattle, the upcoming release of its Lemur 2 drone, his recent White House visit, and the geopolitical forces impacting its products.
He also explains the mind-blowing series of events that led OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to become the company’s first investor. Listen to the end for that.
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| 0:00.0 | The second story is engineering and office space and then the first story is |
| 0:06.3 | predominantly like manufacturing R&D technician areas. |
| 0:09.7 | Blake Resnick, the CEO and founder of Drone Startup, Brink, was showing us around the company's |
| 0:16.2 | two-level space in a nondescript building in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, |
| 0:21.5 | when he mentioned that it had been a very eventful day. |
| 0:26.2 | We just finished up a board meeting so if I'm a little bit fried that'll be why and we just |
| 0:31.7 | had the first flight of the production version of Leymertu. |
| 0:36.0 | So yeah, it happened while we're in the board meeting. |
| 0:40.0 | In this building? |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.0 | So we heard like Cheers kind of erupt from this general area |
| 0:44.5 | when it happened which was that was a fun moment. The spontaneous |
| 0:47.9 | celebration was in response to the first flight of the production version of |
| 0:52.0 | the Lehmer II. The company's new drone for police and other public safety agencies. |
| 0:57.0 | It was another milestone for brink and another day in the life of a 23 year old startup leader who oversees a team of nearly 100 people |
| 1:05.2 | and has raised more than 80 million dollars from some of the biggest names in |
| 1:09.0 | technology and venture capital. I'm GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop. On this episode of the GeekWire |
| 1:14.9 | podcast, Blake Resnick sits down at the end of a very eventful day to talk about the company's |
| 1:20.5 | origin story. Its decision to move from Las Vegas to Seattle, the |
| 1:25.2 | development and upcoming release of the Leymur 2, his recent visit to the White House |
| 1:29.8 | and the geopolitical forces impacting the company's products. |
| 1:34.0 | And finally, he tells the story of the mind-blowing series of events |
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