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Govtech + Drones Crash Course, Lessons From 2 Exits | Rahul Sidhu

Jan 30, 2025 · 1h 29m

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Rahul Sidhu is the co-founder of SPIDRTech and Aerodome, two companies in the public safety space. He’s sold both of them, and our conversation unpacks all the lessons he learned, what he did differently with his second company Aerodome, and why he sold only 17 months after starting it. If you tuned into last week’s episode, Paul told us to never talk to the cops. Rahul gives us the other side of the story, sharing his playbook for selling to police, the government, how he met Nikita Bier in high school, and why he’s still bullish on drones, robotics, and AI in the physical world. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (04:07) What its like testifying to Congress (08:06) Why 90% of what he knew about…