When Innovation Is on the Line, Who Shows Up to Fight?
This isn’t just about Axon.
It’s about whether Arizona has the ambition to back billion-dollar dreams—and the will to keep them here.
🔥 In this episode of Inside the Ascent, we sit down with Mat Sherman, Phoenix-born founder and ASU alum, who’s sounding the alarm:
“If Axon leaves, it’s not just a punch in the gut for our economy. It tells every startup founder that Arizona might not support their dreams.”
He’s not staying quiet—and he’s not standing alone.
Matt’s organizing a rally on Saturday, April 26th 10:00 am at Cactus Park in North Scottsdale, with leaders like Jack Selby (PayPal) and Don Fotsch (ex-Apple) joining the fight.
🎧 Inside the Ascent brings you this urgent conversation—because what happens next could define Arizona’s innovation future.
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Then show up, speak out, and stand with the founders shaping what’s next.
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They're coming out to that, they're coming out to the rally. We got a ton of people coming. Hopefully we'll get, you know, way more. We already have a really awesome number and they're going to make some noise, right. And we have we have, you know, Jack Selby, we've Don Fotch. We've you know, these speakers that are that are coming to to to to to say their opinion on about on Axon. And the idea again, is that we're not these like business people that are profiting off of Axon stain and like, no, I just like, I just want errors in Arizona to be a place where if I have a. Company and we're scaling I don't wanna be afraid that we're gonna have to leave because we can't expand in the state yeah you know I just wanna be able to scale here and feel like I'll be supported and that's how every other business business owner feels as well and the only only you know person who wants to stay here on the board is literally the founder and he's trying to make it happen and like we're making a heart for him and I think I think that's just tough so let listen list pointed the chain be another checkbox like TSMC was we got it was great we saw that that was cool props to the ACA you know we lost the. Girl, OK, let's win this one and let's win the next three. Then let's keep winning because what happened is.
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