When Skydeo, a young maker of drones based in San Mateo, California, sent a customer proposal in

23 to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, its chief of staff, Mike Gennaro,

forwarded the email to VC Ben Horowitz.

Which deployment are you looking to do, Horowitz wrote back.

Whatever you want us to do, Ben, Genaro replied.

Oh, boy.

Okay.

So it's cool that these guys are all friends and they're just like, yeah,

whatever the drawing guy says. Yeah, yeah. Just Ben Horowitz should, it's the police department's

priorities are going to be set by the civilian government and also the like rich guy that moved here.

He'll just also get a direct ability to set like determine what the department buys and what it

does and so on.

Horowitz then donated some millions of dollars to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police

Department's foundation to purchase Skydeo drones for the department.

Skydeo praised the LVMPD's choice to adopt its X10 drones and quote,

driven by the ambitious vision of making Las Vegas the safest community in America.

Of course, this is Ben Horowitz's vision to make Las Vegas the safest community in America for him.

And Las Vegas is already a kind of theme park, you know,

it's already extremely heavily surveilled and extremely heavily policed.

And it's got like five years of climate left anyway.

Yeah.

So it just like sprinkling some drones over it is just, you know, it's seasoning, you know?

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