I love talking with successful people. Rick Smith, the CEO of Axon, is definitely one of my favorite conversations. You may know his company as Taser. Our conversation is about his road to success, ...

Paychecks for the big boys in business jumped nearly 10% last year, and nobody scored better than Axon CEO Rick Smith of Scottsdale. When it comes to raking in the dough, Smith is No. 1, according to ...

The CEO of the company that makes stun guns raked in $165 million last year — dwarfing the payouts handed out to the better-known bosses of Apple, Meta, Nvidia and all other executives in the S&P 500.

Even while he was studying at Chaparral High, Rick Smith was obsessed with science fiction and space. Years after founding a company with a “flagship” product based on Capt. Kirk’s phasers, Smith ...