Rob Slaughter

If you've ever waited 20 seconds for a government computer to open a single email, you already understand the problem my next guest built a billion-dollar company to solve.

Rob Slaughter is a former Air Force officer, PhD in engineering physics, and the co-founder and CEO of Defense Unicorns, a company built on a simple but radical idea: software should be a strategic deterrent, not a bureaucratic afterthought.

So in 2021, Rob and his co-founders set out to fix how the Department of Defense, now Department of War, builds, delivers, and updates mission software.

Now trusted across the Navy, Army, Air Force, and Space Force to adopt software tools and software effectively, this guy looked at the slowest-moving bureaucracy on the planet and decided to out-innovate it from the inside.