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• bullish assessment Rick Smith

  we've been accused of underplaying the risks of taser on these people because they are in a medical crisis. And in fact, there's a term that's become so controversial called excited delirium, which has been coined for decades, which connotes this idea of people that are in these very violent mental health episodes or drug-related episodes, and they're quite dangerous. And these people, there's a fair likelihood they die in custody regardless of what force police use. And so we, for years, have b

• bullish prediction Rick Smith

  police officers don't want to kill someone. We technologists have just never given them the tool to have confidence that they can stop the most dangerous people with anything besides a gun.

• neutral fact_claim Rick Smith

  We're giving him this new heavy clothing penetrating dart that we've been working on. And they're going to test it in Norway as their primary defensive weapon.

• bullish endorsement Rick Smith

  he basically reached out to us and said, hey, if you guys can solve the cloning problem, I actually think the taser is a better weapon than a gun.

• bullish assessment Rick Smith

  we went and we built a prototype and said, okay, let's just experiment. And what was amazing is the moment we had people fire the system, there was this aha moment from the experience where they said, oh my gosh, this is so much easier. I don't have to do like angle trigonometry. How far is the guy? Where's my second dart? You just pick your two dart locations. You aim there and you fire it twice. Now what that also means is if I'm standing next to you, I can pick fire here and there. So I've go

• neutral fact_claim Rick Smith

  we changed the name to Axon just because Taser is such a powerful brand that connotes the idea of an electric weapon. Again, it wasn't broad enough for the company anymore.

• neutral assessment Rick Smith

  It seems to me like major tech changes in this industry seem to take about seven years to sink in.

• bullish assessment David Friedberg

  Axon is a name you might not know, but it is a nearly $50 billion public company that's products include the Taser... and a new AI product called DraftOne that helps police officers with their drafting of police reports.

• neutral fact_claim Rick Smith

  the first outside dollar I ever raised was in an IPO. Until then, every professional investor told us we were crazy.

• bullish fact_claim Rick Smith

  We protect all the NFL stadiums and much of the, many of the cities of Ukraine have those same sensors.

• bullish fact_claim Rick Smith

  we believe today hosts more video than YouTube in terms of content.

• bullish fact_claim Rick Smith

  we have around a million police officers worldwide wearing body cameras, uploading about two hours of video every day.

• bullish fact_claim Rick Smith

  we do the first draft of their police report, which cuts the amount of time police spend on bureaucracy by about 50%.