{"id":18958,"date":"2026-09-28T14:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/how-a-gen-zer-constructed-a-3-7-billion-protection-tech-startup-backed-by-sequoia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:36:14","slug":"how-a-gen-zer-constructed-a-3-7-billion-protection-tech-startup-backed-by-sequoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/how-a-gen-zer-constructed-a-3-7-billion-protection-tech-startup-backed-by-sequoia\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Gen Zer constructed a $3.7 billion protection tech startup backed by Sequoia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Thornton launched Mach Industries at 19. Three years later, the startup is elevating a total bunch of tens of millions and manufacturing self reliant protection programs&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/09\/28\/how-gen-zer-built-3-7-billion-defense-tech-startup-backed-sequoia\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Thornton launched Mach Industries at 19. Three years later, the startup is elevating a total bunch of tens of millions and manufacturing self reliant protection programs&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyupmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}