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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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
It seems to me like major tech changes in this industry seem to take about seven years to sink in.
the first outside dollar I ever raised was in an IPO. Until then, every professional investor told us we were crazy.
We protect all the NFL stadiums and much of the, many of the cities of Ukraine have those same sensors.
we believe today hosts more video than YouTube in terms of content.
we have around a million police officers worldwide wearing body cameras, uploading about two hours of video every day.
we do the first draft of their police report, which cuts the amount of time police spend on bureaucracy by about 50%.