SWAT Drones Give 23-Year-Old Founder Net Worth Over $100 Million

Blake Resnick was 18 when he started to go on calls with Las Vegas’s SWAT team.

He would drive out late at night with law enforcement, deploy drones to watch what worked and what didn’t, and return to his mother’s kitchen to reengineer a new iteration for the next mission. The SWAT team never gave him the vest he was promised.

Now 23, Resnick leads Brinc Drones, one of the largest makers of the aircraft in the US. The company, which has about 100 employees, has raised more than $80 million from the likes of OpenAI founder Sam Altman, former acting ...