Mike Glover w/ Bill Thompson of Spartan Forge

Together We Go

Mike Glover

Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Special Guest: BILL THOMPSON

Bill Thompson is a retired Chief Warrant Officer 4 with a history of working in the government’s most technologically advanced specialized units and organizations, including a job as a Cyber Network Operations advisor and program evaluator at DARPA. Bill is responsible for contributing to many of the advancements in AI, Signals, and Human Intelligence, which led to many successful operations involving the capturing and killing of terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Southern Philippines.

Bill utilized that same tech prowess to create software that allows big and small game tracking with advanced planning, mapping, and AI for hunters. In the military, Bill’s roles held a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. By harnessing innovators inside and outside government, Bill has delivered on that mission and remains a champion for America’s national security and defense communities.

www.spartanforge.ai

www.patreon.com/mikeglover

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0:00.0	All right, man. Well, thanks for coming out, Bill.
0:10.4	Yeah, I appreciate you.
0:11.1	Have me out here, man. You got a great setup. This is awesome.
0:13.2	I appreciate it, man. This is goals for me.
0:15.3	Yeah, you know, it's funny. It's like we were talking about Andy and how big of a
0:19.2	attorney was.
0:21.7	Oh, we weren't going to talk about that.
0:22.6	I know.
0:23.3	It's got to bring up old shit.
0:25.6	But Andy's kind of way of setting up his studio, his office where he walks across the street, does
0:35.2	jiu-jitsu, walks down the street, gets a cup of coffee
0:38.0	from his coffee shop.
0:39.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:39.5	I should have known that earlier on in business because everything I created was like
0:46.3	distant, far inconvenient and required me to be on the road like 300 days a year.
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:52.6	So when I kind of revamped everything, even now, we're not in the studio, we're in my kitchen.
0:59.2	It's more personable because I want like, I want a more intimate setting, but I also want
1:04.9	to be close to home.
1:05.8	Yeah.
1:06.1	And so now I'm working on like the shop, the studio and everything else where I can just
1:10.2	bring people in and do rad stuff and do like we shop, the studio and everything else where I can just bring people in
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