SPONSORS: 1) AMENTARA: Try Amanita muscaria from Amentara at https://amentara.com/go/JULIAN and use code JD22 for 22% off your first order. 2) PRIZE PICKS: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/JULIAN and use code JULIAN and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! 3) PROTECT MY DATA: Go to https://protectmydata.com and use code JULIAN for 30% off all annual plans. JOIN PATREON FOR EARLY UNCENSORED EPISODE RELEASES: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey CLIPPERS DISCORD: https://discord.gg/8QmWEKJ3BT (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Brandon Tseng is a former Navy SEAL and drone expert. He attended the US Naval Academy before getting his MBA from Harvard business school and becoming the Co-Founder of Shield AI, a drone company that currently has a $12 Billion Valuation. BRANDON's LINKS: X: https://x.com/brandontseng2 Website: https://shield.ai/ FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY IG: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://x.com/juliandorey JULIAN YT CHANNELS - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@juliandoreyclips - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP LISTEN to Julian Dorey Podcast Spotify ▶ https://open.spotify.com/show/5skaSpDzq94Kh16so3c0uz Apple ▶ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trendifier-with-julian-dorey/id1531416289 ****TIMESTAMPS**** 0:00 - Not building the AntiChrist, Dream of being Navy SEAL, Not selected at first, 1st Ship 12:32 - Leading Ship w/ energy, reapplying for Navy SEALs, Going into BUD/S 21:47 - Prepping for SEALs, Sleep Deprivation, VGE & Neurovirus, Hell Week, SEAL Team 7 33:46 - Shipped to Afghanistan w/ Team 7, Bin Laden, #1 Military Operation of all time 44:21 - Working next to SEAL Team 6, Kill Chain, IEDs, “a wild story” 54:59 - Red Alert & Trust, “You’re already dead,” Iran, Speaking Farsi, Julian disagrees 1:06:15 - Afghanistan pullout and armchair QB, Action vs Inaction, Taliban 1:16:45 - Taking Firefights personally, Brandon’s first shootout, Platoon Commander 1:29:15 - Laying waste to ISIS, Arabian Peninsula Leaving SEALS, Harvard, Shield AI Born 1:39:15 - AI vs. Internet, $4.5 Quadrillion Impact, Sentience, Fears & Safeguards 1:49:42 - Technocratic Elite, Julian’s Biggest AI Fear, Brandon’s Hero, Fleeing China 1:58:15 - Brandon on China & Taiwan as Taiwanese American, China as a threat 2:06:35 - How Shield Ai came to be, Warfare, V-Bat 2:17:58 - V-Bat gathers intel for Oil Rig in Ukraine, Indo-Chinese Conflict Help, Targeting 2:31:19 - X-Bat, First Flights, AI Pilot w/ Claude like software, Dealing w/ Pentagon 2:42:40 - Anthropic & Pentagon, NextGen Warfare, Drone Armies, Robots fighting 2:52:40 - Using drones to solve Mexican Cartel Problem, Cartel Terrorism Designation 3:01:31 - Power of words, not afraid of losing, $12 Billion Valuation, Working w/ Taiwan 3:07:03 - Brandon’s Work OTHER JDP EPISODES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: - Episode 388 - John Kiriakou: https://youtu.be/vmDn8YzxVeQ CREDITS: - Host, Editor & Producer: Julian Dorey - COO, Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@UCyLKzv5fKxGmVQg3cMJJzyQ - In-Studio Producer: Joey Deef - https://www.instagram.com/joeydeef/ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 409 - Brandon Tseng Music by Artlist.io