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🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Ben Williams is a former US Navy Surface Warfare Officer and current CEO of Exyn Technologies. Drones serve a vital function in search and rescue missions, like in Acapulco recently, providing valuable information to rescuers on the best routes and plans that mean the difference between life and death.
Williams shares dicey situations back in the Navy when he led small boat boarding teams and encountered a caricature of the quintessential Russian captain—a half-finished bottle of vodka in one hand and pistol in the other. He also talks about how he transitioned from the military to civilian life and how combat-specific duties comprise just 10% of a serviceman or woman's skill set.
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Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bentropy/
Website - https://www.exyn.com/
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1:25.7 | drones, the AI world, how he's using his company's capabilities to try to solve problems like finding people who are |
1:35.6 | missing. For example our friend Lily that is a mutual acquaintance she lived in |
1:40.5 | a aquapoco she's very familiar with the area, and just recently, less than a month ago from filming this in October time frame, they were hit with a category, what, four or five hurricane, right? |
1:58.2 | Yeah, so a serious problem with, you know, with a huge storm destroyed tons of infrastructure, you know, a place where there was a large tourist base and you know a lot of |
2:06.7 | sort of varied kind of buildings and just utter destruction lots of stuff |
2:11.0 | destroyed and a real problem for search and rescue crews that are |
2:15.6 | going into an area where there was some regulation around you know resiliency |
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