Patrick W. Smith
Founder of Axon Enterprise
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Oct 6, 2026
Michael BrownHOST
Hawley had invited, along with Durbin, the CEOs of the four largest companies in this business of surveillance of you and me.
Michael BrownHOST
Garrett Langley of Flock Safety, Rick Smith of Axon, that's the Taser and body camera company, Greg Brown, no relationship, of Motorola Solutions, and Philippe Calmésan of s- of V- of V- Verkada.
Michael BrownHOST
The four of them stayed home.
Michael BrownHOST
Four empty chairs at the witness table in front of a Senate subcommittee.
RenHOST
But you also have to be like, it's a founder-led business.
RenHOST
Um, Rick Smith, the founder, still- he owns, like, 3.5% of the...
RenHOST
But it's like he owns a billion dollars worth of the stock still.
Bryce LeskeHOST
Yeah.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
Jim, what is your opinion of AXON? Thank you.
Jim CramerHOST
Okay, I happen to like Rick Smith.
Jim CramerHOST
Anyone who's watched the show for a couple decades knows that I think Rick Smith's great.
Jim CramerHOST
I do think that there's actual te- uh, actual competition now at Axon, and they've got a good product.
Jim CramerHOST
But I have to tell you, when there's competition, that means there's gonna be gross margin pressure.
Rick SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
An enormous amount of the resources that are invested in policing are actually consumed with mundane, bureaucratic, inefficient tasks.
Lee WaldenCORRESPONDENT
This is Axon CEO Rick Smith.
Lee WaldenCORRESPONDENT
He explained how this new tech works in this promotional video.
Rick SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Draft One is an AI tool that takes the audio from a body camera, we turn that into a transcript, and then from that transcript we reformat that information into the form of a police report narrative.
Rick SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
An enormous amount of the resources that are invested in policing are actually consumed with mundane, bureaucratic, inefficient tasks.
Leigh WaldenCORRESPONDENT
This is Axon CEO Rick Smith.
Leigh WaldenCORRESPONDENT
He explained how this new tech works in this promotional video.
Rick SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
DraftOne is an AI tool that takes the audio from a body camera, we turn that into a transcript, and then from that transcript, we reformat that information into the form of a police report narrative.
Aaron KhooGUEST
Guns are not going to go away.
Aaron KhooGUEST
I will say that Rick Smith, the CEO of Taser, if you've ever talked to him, the reason why he started Taser in the first place was because he experienced a loss himself.
Aaron KhooGUEST
A couple of his friends were actually killed.
Aaron KhooGUEST
I don't exactly know what the circumstances were, but they were killed by cops when he was a teenager.
Rick SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This response could bring a situation under control in a matter of seconds.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
This is Rick Smith.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
He's the CEO of Axon.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
They're a big police tech company, and at the time, he was thinking about the same problem Mythril is thinking about now.
14 MINS LATER
Barry FriedmanGUEST
[instrumental music] I know Rick was very disappointed.
Barry FriedmanGUEST
This has really been one of his dreams, I think.
Dina Temple-RastonHOST
Rick Smith, the CEO of Axon.
Barry FriedmanGUEST
But we never had time to explain the reasoning.
Jon BeckerHOST
Yeah.
Steve IjamesGUEST
And, uh, the, the biggest, the next biggest change, completely different paradigm, uh, in that same era- Was, was Rick Smith and the Taser.
Jon BeckerHOST
Yeah.
Steve IjamesGUEST
And so Barry Resnick and Taser Tron.
Steve IjamesGUEST
When one of you figures out a way to get enough horsepower on this thing that it works reliably, and you get it on an officer's belt, you win.
Steve IjamesGUEST
That's how it works.
Steve IjamesGUEST
That's, that's the race you're in right now." And about four months later, Rick Smith called me and said, uh, "I got this, uh, M device, and it's-
Jon BeckerHOST
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