​Michael LeBlanc, forecasted as the 'billionaire robot kid" and tech founder renowned for building and scaling industry-leading companies, recently achieved a historic milestone: the February 2026 deployment of the first humanoid robot to an active warzone in Ukraine.
Marine Corps Major
Harvard Business School Graduate​
Co-Founder, Foundation Robotics
Author
Michael LeBlanc
The Author
Biography
Michael LeBlanc is a former U.S. Marine Corps major, Harvard Business School graduate, and technology founder whose career has spanned combat leadership, elite education, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurship. He served 13 years in the Marine Corps, deploying multiple times to the Middle East, including Afghanistan, where he worked as an advisor to the Afghan National Army in some of the war's most complex coalition environments.​
​After leaving the military, LeBlanc became a founder in the robotics and defense technology space. He is the cofounder of Cobalt Robotics, a venture-backed autonomous security company acquired in 2024, and Foundation Future Industries, a defense-focused robotics company building autonomous systems for the U.S. Department of Defense. His work sits at the intersection of leadership, technology, and human judgment under pressure.​
​​In What If Anger Is the Answer, LeBlanc draws on combat experience, classical philosophy, literature, and leadership failures to challenge a modern assumption: that anger is something to be eliminated rather than shaped. Drawing on firsthand war stories, Marine leadership lessons, and deep engagement with thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Machiavelli, he argues that anger—what the Greeks called thumos—is an essential part of the human soul. When disciplined and aligned with reason, it becomes a force for courage, loyalty, and leadership rather than destruction.​
​LeBlanc’s work has been featured in major outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Insider, NBC Nightly News, and CNBC. Most recently, his company, Foundation, was featured on the cover of Newsweek. He lives with his wife and children and writes primarily for those who feel the tension between strength and restraint, ambition and loyalty, excellence and meaning.
