Rick Smith
$1.9B
Born
May 20, 1970
Age
55
Source of Wealth
Tasers
Residence
Flagstaff, Arizona
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
0
Education
- Rick Smith is the founder and CEO of taser maker Axon Enterprise.
- He founded the company as TASER International in 1993 and took it public on the Nasdaq in 2001.
- Smith is a billionaire thanks to a hefty performance-based stock option package (equaling an 8% stake in Axon) he was awarded in 2018.
- He still owns 4% of the company after exercising and selling nearly half of those options for an estimated $200 million after-tax.
- Axon had a market cap of more than $40 billion at the end of March 2025, up more than 600% from five years earlier.
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