From Bankrupt Builder to $300M CEO: The Wild Story No One Believes
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & EchoMav
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Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/
Today's Dropping Bombs episode features Trey Sprinkle, a former cop and pastor turned drone entrepreneur now running a $300 million defense company.
Trey shares how his time in Ukraine led him into drone warfare, why chip manufacturing could decide the next global conflict, and how his technology is already being used by the U.S. military.
This is a story about turning hard resets into massive opportunities, and it might just change how you think about where the world is headed next.
🔗 Connect with Trey
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelastamericanoutlaw
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LastAmericanOutlaw
Podcast: American Outlaw (Apple Podcasts)
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Brad Lea is a self-made entrepreneur who turned small-town grit into a multi-million-dollar empire. With over 25 years dominating sales and leadership, he's mentored thousands to outsmart, outwork, and out win their competition. His top-rated podcast, Dropping Bombs, brings raw, game-changing insights from the biggest names in business.
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| 0:00.0 | We hacked the first DJI drones to where they could drop frags. We are 100% changing the way all of warfare is, looks, and will always be done. I am saving lives. I am changing the battlefield. We are expecting that China will take Taiwan, and I expect that's going to run us into World War III. So does most everybody else inside the government. You really think we're going to World War 3? I do. Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:23.0 | I think... |
| 0:23.9 | Will that end in the nuclear bomb? |
| 0:27.8 | So, I think... |
| 0:31.7 | What it is, Bradley, back again with another episode |
| 0:34.8 | of drop bombs today in the studio. Folks, |
| 0:36.8 | I got a real treat for you. |
| 0:38.4 | Trey Sprinkle in the house. What's happening? |
| 0:41.2 | Hey, Brad, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. I'm super impressed by your facilities and |
| 0:46.1 | our conversation. I'm excited. Well, I thank you very much, my friend. If you guys don't know him |
| 0:50.9 | at The Last American Outlaw, he's got a podcast, Last American Outlaw. |
| 0:56.8 | And if you do know him, then you already know he's more than a podcaster, folks. |
| 1:02.4 | This dude's an entrepreneur, a businessman. He went from bankrupt to a police officer, to a church pastor, to a YouTube creator with a ton of followers and now for some reason |
| 1:13.5 | and I need to figure out how you ended up there but now you're like a drone a military drone |
| 1:21.5 | company yeah yeah echo math technologies incorporated started that in 2022 through the Ukrainian Russian conflict and started it from scratch to where we are now. |
| 1:34.0 | It's crazy, dude. You went from, you went from bankrupt to now running a freaking, would you call it a defense contractor or a. |
| 1:42.7 | Yeah, I think that's where we fall in as a defense |
| 1:45.2 | contractor and i think we're i think we're valued right now at about 300 million dollars yeah but |
| 1:50.1 | you're looking at like a path like who would a thunk was it your cop background do you have |
| 1:57.6 | military background like how did you end up making military drones yeah so i started out as a |
| 2:04.5 | police officer now this is going to be a little bit unpopular but when i was a kid uh i was born in 80 so in the 90s |
| 2:12.7 | there was no military conflict so it wasn't cool to be in the military. And police were looked at a lot |
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