- Blake Resnick, founder and CEO of Brinc Drones, is currently worth $100 million, according to Bloomberg.
- Resnick founded drone manufacturer Brinc Drones in 2019 and grew it to a $300 million business.
- Blink is backed by OpenAI founder Sam Altman and former Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.
There’s a newly minted centimillionaire — he’s only 23 years old.
Blake Resnick, founder and CEO of drone maker Binc Drones, has reached a milestone after the startup he founded in 2019 grew to a $300 million valuation as of April 10. Bloomberg.
Resnick owns about half of the privately held startup and is one of the largest U.S. drone makers, employing about 100 people, according to Bloomberg. Currently, his net worth has reached $100 million.
patron of blink OpenAI Founder Sam Altman, Former Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, Defamation Former President Included FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Freed.
Resnick seems to have started his career early. According to him, he enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas at the age of 14 and transferred to Northwestern University two years later. LinkedIn profileBut he dropped out of the Northwest Start blink.
2020Resnick won teal fellowship — Backed by Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel — $100,000 in grants to young people who “build new things instead of sitting in classrooms.”
Listed on company website As a start-up “committed to building technology that helps public safety,” Blink focuses on technological devices that enhance public safety.
Resnick told Insider Aaron Holmes in 2021, “We want to do away with police helicopters and respond to serious emergencies in seconds.
Resnick started his drone company after the 2017 shooting at a country music festival in his hometown of Las Vegas, which killed 58 people. After the shooting, he called the lieutenant in charge of his SWAT team in Las Vegas and asked about techniques that would help police identify and stop the shooter.
He ended up signing his first contract with Blink to custom-build a drone for a crisis situation. Since then, the business has expanded to supply police and fire departments around the world.
Today, the Brinc website features a drone, the Lemur 2, and the BrincBall, a communication device for crisis situations.
Lemur drones were used for search and rescue operations in Ukraine. Seattle Times Reported in June 2022. Half-destruction of apartment in Surfside, Florida.
Resnick has been featured in the Forbes 30 under 30 and has done internships at well-known companies.
Born in Las Vegas to a doctor and special education teacher, Resnick’s adventures in science began as a child. At age 14, he had a nuclear fusion reaction in his parents’ garage in Las Vegas. his website bio.
By the time Resnick dropped out of college, he was already a teenager interning at some of the world’s most famous companies, including British supercar makers McLaren, Tesla and Chinese drone giant DJI. LinkedIn profile.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Resnick forbes 30 under 30 age group achievers list 2021 And in 2022. However, there is a small problem.
“I don’t think my mother would have forgiven me for dropping out of school. She hated it,” Resnick jokingly told The Seattle Times. I’ll tell people I’m going to Stanford and then reconsider mentioning Blink.”
Resnick did not immediately respond to an Insider’s request for further comment sent outside of normal business hours.