Make love and electricity, not war with Rick Smith

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 29 May 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Rick is the founder & CEO, TASER International. He is on a mission to make the bullet obsolete.

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0:00.0	EO Fire 1316
0:03.3	I don't have that regret nagging at me that I should have done it.
0:07.4	Hey Fire Nation and welcome to EO Fire where I chat with inspiring entrepreneurs 7 days a week.
0:15.4	Are you looking for an all-in-one podcasting solution?
0:18.6	Visit podcastwebsites.com and schedule a chat to see why podcast websites is for you.
0:25.1	Ignite!
0:27.4	Ready to drag and drop your way to a beautiful website?
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0:36.1	Visit squarespace.com and use promo code fire to get 10% off your first purchase.
0:43.9	Boom! Shake the room Fire Nation!
0:46.8	Johnny Doom is here and I'm fired up to bring you our featured guest today, Rick Smith.
0:52.4	Rick, are you prepared to ignite?
0:55.6	I don't know if I can be fully prepared. This sounds like it could be a wild ride.
1:00.0	Rick is the founder and CEO of Taser International. He's on a mission to make the bullet obsolete.
1:07.1	Rick, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that in-chown. Give us just a little glimpse of your
1:11.2	personal life. A couple decades back now I was in grad school in Belgium when two of my friends
1:17.1	were shot and killed in a road rage incident back in the US. And right about that time I happened
1:22.7	across an article in the Wall Street Journal that mentioned that that year there were 35,000
1:28.0	people shot and killed. And to me it was like I thought it was a typo. It was such a staggeringly
1:33.0	large number. But it's not and in fact we still have over 30,000 people being shot and killed in
1:38.4	this country every year. And that struck me as like something fundamentally messed up with the world.
1:45.3	And so as I looked at it, my background, I grew up near Silicon Valley,
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