Blake Resnick

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691 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2025 last heard 31 Jul

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TBPN · Blake Resnick, Ian Cinnamon, Zach Weinberg, Jen Bucci, Paul Mikesell, Rylan Hamilton, Zach Long, Formula One · 11 Apr 2025 podcast

I knew people that were along the strip when that was happening.

And that's what got me thinking like maybe maybe there's a home for some of the technology that I love in the hands of first responders to help them save lives during critical incidents.

So I went and I reached out to Vegas Metro SWAT and uh surprised

Surprisingly they agreed to have lunch with like eighteen year old me at the time.

And the beginning of that interaction, you know, we we talked a lot about what happened during October one and I learned things that I didn't realize.

But then the conversation broadened to the the rest of their jobs, you know, the high-risk warr searches and barricades and hostage rescue missions that they have to face every day.

And, you know, I I walked I walked away from that interaction thinking if they just had a way to get eyes and ears in dangerous places, that that would be a life-saving capability.

Ability for them regularly in the context of Active Future Response, but also all of the other missions that I mentioned.

And while I also conceptualized the idea of like a citywide nine-wood response drone network in that meeting, I was familiar with how technically complex it would be to pull something like that off from my time at DJI, because they were my prior employer before I started Brink.

Um, just the levels of reliability and airspace deconfliction and optics and like many other things that you have to pull off in order to really make that work.

It felt out of scope for me at the time.

So I began with the indoor system, uh, which is really like a purpose-built drone for SWAT teams to get eyes and ears in dangerous places.

We invented the world's first drone glassbreaker.

So the drone can actually fly up to a window, shatter it out, make entry.

Then it has a LIDAR on board.

So as it's clearing rooms, it's drawing a floor plan of that structure and then streaming it back live to first responders, has thermal imaging capabilities, 4K cameras, and also a two-way audio system.

So when the drone finds someone, a crisis negotiator can actually use it like a flying cell phone to try to de-escalate the situation.

And today, over 600 SWAT teams are actively using it, which is about 10 to 15% of the SWAT teams in.

United States.

And that success was really what enabled us to take on this like larger vision of automating a lot of nine one call response.

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