Podcasts about flock safety

Brett Kanda is Director of Drone as First Responder Sales at Flock Safety.  Flock Safety is a leading safety technology platform that helps communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and public security. Flock's end-to-end suite of hardware and software connects cities, law enforcement agencies, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods into a nationwide public-private safety network. Today, Flock is trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses to deliver real-time intelligence—while maintaining the highest standards of privacy, data integrity, and responsible innovation. At Flock, Brett leads the DFR Specialist team, focusing on reducing emergency response times and improving community safety. Before Flock acquired Aerodome, Brett was the company's first employee and served as Senior Vice President of Business Development, where he spearheaded go-to-market efforts for their NextGen DFR platform. With more than a decade of experience in the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) industry, Brett has deep expertise in UAS technology, regulatory frameworks, and market strategy. His previous roles include key positions at BRINC, FLIR Systems, and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems, where he helped grow drone businesses and expand their customer reach. He also co-founded two drone startups focused on delivering actionable insights through UAS technology. Before entering the drone industry, Brett was a professional golfer and a collegiate standout at UNLV, where he was a two-time Academic All-American and team captain. In this episode of the Drone Radio Show, Brett shares insights on Flock Safety's innovative Drone as First Responder program and how this cutting-edge technology is helping local law enforcement agencies enhance public safety and fight crime more effectively.

How on earth do startup founders with zero experience in the security industry sell millions of dollars in contracts to police stations around the US?In this episode of Exceptional Startups, Garrett Langley, founder and CEO of Flock Safety, breaks down step-by-step 1) How they did it, 2) What process gave them the idea to go after crime, and 3), The biggest lessons he's learned during Flock Safety's rocket-like growth.Chapters:(00:00:00) Flock Safety's Impact on Crime Solving(00:11:05) Innovative Solutions for Crime Prevention(00:11:51) Community Safety Solutions through Innovative Technology(00:18:06) Daily Customer Engagement for Business Success(00:21:04) Strategic Management for Hardware-Enabled SaaS Businesses(00:24:48) Managing Costs for Hardware Startup Funding(00:32:48) Crime Reduction Revolution with Flock's Technology——Check out Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com/Check out PELION: https://pelionvp.com/Subscribe for more!

Connor Metz, Flock Safety spokesperson, joins Jon Hansen to discuss how their cameras track cars and whether they are overstepping with surveillance.

Today's show: Alex and Lon discuss Windsurf getting abruptly cut off from Anthropic just before a rumored $3B acquisition by OpenAI, sparking questions around platform risk and foundation-model politics; Deel defends itself by arguing the information it allegedly took was public or obvious, complicating its ongoing legal saga; and Flock Safety's neighborhood-focused surveillance tech—combining LPR cameras and drones—positions itself as a privacy-conscious tool that gives elected officials control over community data governance.Timestamps:(0:00) Episode Teaser(2:48) ADP's Employment Numbers Might Make Your Eyes Water(5:54) Is the Circle IPO Over Subscribed?(9:25) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://www.vanta.com/twist(13:00) Anthropic Shows Sharp Elbows With Windsurf(19:55) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist(20:57) Is It Really Stealing If It's Public or Obvious? Deel Says No(29:23) Northwest Registered Agent. Form your entire business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes. Get more privacy, more options, and more done—visit northwestregisteredagent.com/twist today!(30:50) The Space Future Alex Has Dreamed About(35:10) Anthropic Can't Stop Scraping Reddit's Data(42:44) Flock Safety is Bringing Surveillance To a Neighborhood Near YouSubscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.comCheck out the TWIST500: https://www.twist500.comSubscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcpLinks from episode:Impulse Space: https://www.impulsespace.com/Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com/Follow Garrett:X: https://x.com/glangleyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glangley/Follow Lon:X: https://x.com/lonsFollow Alex:X: https://x.com/alexLinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelmFollow Jason:X: https://twitter.com/JasonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanisThank you to our partners:(9:25) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at https://www.vanta.com/twist(19:55) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist(29:23) Northwest Registered Agent. Form your entire business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes. Get more privacy, more options, and more done—visit northwestregisteredagent.com/twist today!Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarlandCheck out Jason's suite of newsletters: https://substack.com/@calacanisFollow TWiST:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TWiStartupsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thisweekinInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinstartupsTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thisweekinstartupsSubstack: https://twistartups.substack.comSubscribe to the Founder University Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@founderuniversity1916

“Traditional license plate readers were developed in the 1950s and 60s,” says this week's guest, Garrett Langley of Flock Safety. “But you can go into Flock and say I'm looking for a black Sedan with after-market tires and a dent on the left corner, and we will find that car.” Former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter, along with Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt, chat with Langley about his innovative and cost-saving approach to public safety, which made national headlines last year by promptly apprehending a would-be Trump assassin and an Atlanta mass shooter. After being the victim of a robbery in his own neighborhood, Langley reimagined vehicle surveillance and built a company that operates alongside thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. “I love citizen entrepreneurs who are in the civic problem-solving business,” Platt told the mayors. “That's who this guy is.” Join us for a deep dive into an idea that keeps cities safer while avoiding the typical pitfalls of street surveillance. Remember to subscribe to the podcast to keep up on all the latest episodes. You can even watch the conversation play out on YouTube. As cities go, so goes the nation!

“Traditional license plate readers were developed in the 1950s and 60s,” says Garrett Langley of Flock Safety. “But you can go into Flock and say I'm looking for a black Sedan with after-market tires and a dent on the left corner, and we will find that car.” On this episode of How To Really Run A City, our hosts chat with Langley about his innovative and cost-saving approach to public safety, which made national headlines last year by promptly apprehending a would-be Trump assassin and an Atlanta mass shooter. After being the victim of a robbery in his own neighborhood, Langley reimagined vehicle surveillance and built a company that operates alongside thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. “I love citizen entrepreneurs who are in the civic problem-solving business,” Larry Platt told former mayors Kasim Reed and Michael Nutter. “That's who this guy is.” Join us for a deep dive into an idea that keeps cities safer while avoiding the typical pitfalls of street surveillance.  As cities go, so goes the nation!

May 14, 2025 ~ Connor Metz, Public Relations Manager for Flock Safety, joins Kevin to discuss how Flock Safety cameras alert officers of stolen vehicles and wanted offenders.

For our latest Uncrewed Views podcast, Jeremiah Karpowicz, Editorial Director of Commercial UAV News, talks with Rahul Sidhu, VP of Aviation at Flock Safety. They discuss the history of drone technology in public safety, creating a balance between safety and privacy, and issues around compliance, cybersecurity, and regulations.

Law enforcement technology is evolving fast, transforming how agencies prevent and tackle crime. With cutting-edge tools like license plate recognition, gunshot detection, and drone-first responders, officers now have real-time intelligence at their fingertips. Leading the charge is Flock Safety, redefining public safety to create safer communities. Founder & CEO Garrett Langley goes Inside the ICE House to share how his company is driving innovation and fighting to make crime a thing of the past. https://www.ice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, and so on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rahul Sidhu is the co-founder of SPIDRTech and Aerodome, two companies in the public safety space.He's sold both of them, and our conversation unpacks all the lessons he learned, what he did differently with his second company Aerodome, and why he sold only 17 months after starting it.If you tuned into last week's episode, Paul told us to never talk to the cops. Rahul gives us the other side of the story, sharing his playbook for selling to police, the government, how he met Nikita Bier in high school, and why he's still bullish on drones, robotics, and AI in the physical world.Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(04:07) What its like testifying to Congress(08:06) Why 90% of what he knew about police was wrong(13:15) How to sell to police departments(15:24) His first business selling WoW accounts(19:00) Meeting Nikita Bier in high school(21:29) Starting SPIDRTech to improve police + community relationships(27:45) Two biggest mistakes building SPIDR(31:47) How startups break down when scaling(34:19) Selling SPIDR instead of raising a Series B(40:12) Why Aerodome was so much easier to start(42:55) Why Rahul loves unsexy markets with founder market fit(46:03) Starting Aerodome, drones as first responders(53:39) Building a capital efficient hardware startup(56:46) How regulatory changes made an opening for Aerodome(01:00:13) Inside Aerodome's Series A(01:03:57) Selling Aerodome to Flock Safety within 17 months(01:09:31) Saying “would I work for this team?” when getting acquired(01:14:35) Seeing a homeless guy in an Aerodome shirt(01:17:02) The massive Robotics + AI opportunity this decade(01:21:42) What's really happening with drones in New JerseyReferenced:SPIDRTech: https://www.spidrtech.com Aerodome: https://www.aerodome.com/ Nikita Bier's Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9QTVII_lkg Follow Rahul:Twitter: https://x.com/rahoolsidoo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulsidhu/ Follow Turner:Twitter: https://twitter.com/TurnerNovak LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnernovak Subscribe to my newsletter to get every episode + the transcript in your inbox every week: https://www.thespl.it/ 

Police departments across the country are embracing AI-enhanced surveillance technology in the name of stopping crime. One prominent security firm called Flock Safety is leading the effort and profiting off our fears. Fast Company Senior Writer Ainsley Harris joined Yaz and Josh to explain how the Atlanta-based startup signed a deal with San Francisco in March 2024 to install and operate 400 LPRs (license plate recognition systems). Then, Yaz chats with President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming and Games JB Perrette about how (HBO) Max's globalization efforts are the biggest aspect of its growth.

Police departments across the country are embracing AI-enhanced surveillance technology in the name of stopping crime. One prominent security firm called Flock Safety is leading the effort and profiting off our fears. Fast Company Senior Writer Ainsley Harris joined Yaz and Josh to explain how the Atlanta-based startup signed a deal with San Francisco in March 2024 to install and operate 400 LPRs (license plate recognition systems). Then, Yaz chats with President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming and Games JB Perrette about how (HBO) Max's globalization efforts are the biggest aspect of its growth.

Police departments across the country are embracing AI-enhanced surveillance technology in the name of stopping crime. One prominent security firm called Flock Safety is leading the effort and profiting off our fears. Fast Company Senior Writer Ainsley Harris joined Yaz and Josh to explain how the Atlanta-based startup signed a deal with San Francisco in March 2024 to install and operate 400 LPRs (license plate recognition systems). Then, Yaz chats with President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming and Games JB Perrette about how (HBO) Max's globalization efforts are the biggest aspect of its growth.

Zachary Bookman is Co-Founder and CEO of OpenGov, the GovTech cloud software leader that was acquired for a staggering $1.8BN earlier this year. Prior to acquisition, Zac raised over $180M from some of the best of the best including Marc Andreesen, Josh Kushner, Joe Lonsdale and Founder Collective to name a few.  Zac is also a successful angel investor with investments in Flexport, Flock Safety and Addepar.  In Today's Show with Zac Bookman We Discuss: 04:27 Navigating Enterprise Sales and Pricing Strategies 07:49 The Importance of High Gross Retention in SaaS 11:03 Investor Relations and the Power Law in Venture Capital 14:32 WTF is Product Market Fit 18:14 What No One Knows About M&A 20:05 Fundraising Challenges and Lessons Learned 32:51 What Marc Andreesen Taught Me About Boards 34:18 Why Founders and Investors are Misaligned 35:29 The OpenGov Acquisition: Selling for $1.8BN 37:22 What Does It Feel Like to Sell for $1.8BN 43:58 Why Venture Capital is a S*** Asset Class 45:13 Investment Mistakes and Lessons 01:02:05 The Importance of In-Person Collaboration    

The stunt-driving parties known as 'sideshows' that frustrate residents and bottle-up roadways could become harder to pull off due to a new policing tool from tech company Flock Safety.

Guests: Joe Thomas, CEO and co-founder of Loom; and Ilya Fushman, partner at Kleiner PerkinsLoom CEO Joe Thomas had a lot of things to think about before he sold his company to Atlassian for $975 million: The impact an acquisition might have on the product, how to keep the Loom brand alive, the risk of remaining independent... but it wasn't until after the deal was announced that he really understood what it meant for his team. “I didn't know how emotional it'd be for me,” Joe says. “All of the Loom employees, current and former, that reached out when this was announced, they did their calculation and they're like, ‘Oh my God.' That, to me, was the most emotionally transformative part of the process. I didn't fully recognize what that would be like, on the individual front.”Chapters:(01:34) - The Atlassian acquisition (05:25) - The bittersweet moment (08:15) - Transforming Loom (13:30) - Ilya's perspective (18:04) - Life-changing (22:55) - Doing it again (25:00) - Loom's early days (28:26) - The Series A (32:33) - Turning on monetization (35:37) - The Series B (37:05) - Loom AI (43:13) - Revenue orientation (48:18) - The acquisition landscape (52:27) - Working inside Atlassian (54:04) - Atlanta tech (55:00) - Who Atlassian is hiring (55:24) - What “grit” means to Joe Mentioned in this episode: Wilson Sonsini, Vinay Hiremath, Andrew Reed and Sequoia Capital, Zoom, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Shahed Khan, COTU Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Scott Farquhar, the Lindy Effect, SVB, Google Chrome, Dropbox, Slack, Snapchat, HubSpot, the Van Westendorp Price Sensitivity Meter, Dylan Field and Figma, Atlassian Rovo, Palo Alto Networks, Salesforce, and Garrett Langley and Flock Safety.Links:Connect with JoeLinkedInTwitterConnect with IlyaTwitterLinkedInConnect with JoubinTwitterLinkedInEmail: grit@kleinerperkins.com Learn more about Kleiner PerkinsThis episode was edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod.fm

American global leadership is due in great part to its innovators — visionaries who drive society beyond the preconceived limits. Historically, government-led initiatives like the Manhattan Project or the Apollo Project pushed boundaries. Today, too often, government lags behind technologically.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I talk with Katherine Boyle about American Dynamism, the spirit of pro-progress innovation, and how a new generation of Silicon Valley startups is spurring government to break out of its old habits.Boyle is a general partner at VC giant Andreessen Horowitz, having previously been a partner at General Catalyst and a general assignment reporter at The Washington Post. She primarily invests in national security, aerospace and defense, and public safety companies, among others.In This Episode* American Dynamism (1:25)* From software to the physical world (7:23)* Government collaboration: challenges & opportunities (11:29)* Playing the long-game in Washington (21:16)* Building the American Dream (24:35)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversationAmerican Dynamism (1:25)Let's just start with a little bit of definition about American Dynamism. Broadly, what challenges or problems is this effort directed toward?It's a bit of a long story as to what American Dynamism is, how it arrived to be a category of innovation, but the short definition is American Dynamism is built for companies that support the national interest. So a very broad category of companies, everything from aerospace, defense, national security, companies that sell directly to the US government and to our allies, but also things like housing, education, transportation, infrastructure, things that are built in the physical world where Washington or states usually like to regulate those things.So one of the things that we saw in our own portfolio is that there are a lot of companies that we used to be classifying as “enterprise” or “consumer,” and really what they were were government companies because they had to interface with a regulator much earlier in their trajectory, or they saw government as a potential buyer of the product. So in cases of things like aerospace and defense, those are very obvious government buyers, but things like public safety, where we have companies like Flock Safety, for example, that started out selling to homeowners associations thinking they were a consumer company, but ultimately got extraordinary pull from local governments and from public safety officials because of how good the technology was. So the companies, in some ways, they were these N-of-One companies, really solving really important civic problems, but over time it became very clear that this was a growing category of technology.But the broader underlying thesis, I'd say, of where the movement came from, and when we really started seeing this as an area where founders, in particular, were excited to build, I think it did come out of “It's Time to Build,” my partner Mark Andreessen's canonical post where he basically said during Covid that we have to be able to build things in the physical world. And there was sort of this realization that technology has solved many, many problems in the digital realm that I think, in some ways, the last 15 years of the Silicon Valley technology story has really been about changes in consumer technology or changes in the workplace, but now we're finally seeing the need for changes in government and civic goods, and there's just an extraordinary amount of momentum from young founders who really want to build for their country, build for the needs of the citizenry.Does it change what you do, or maybe the kinds of expertise that are needed, to think about these things as a category, rather than different companies scattered in these other kinds of categories. Thinking of them as like, “Oh, there's some sort of commonality,” how is that helpful for you?The thing that's interesting is that there's sort of a “yes” and “no” part to that question. The yes is that the founders are coming from different places. So the companies that have led to this sort of, I would say, extraordinary wealth of engineering talent where people are not afraid to tackle these problems, there's a handful of the companies that have scaled: it's companies like SpaceX, companies like Palantir, where, 20 years ago, they were banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out, “How do we sell to government?” In many cases, they had to sue the government in order to be able to sell and compete against the larger incumbents that have been around for, in many cases, 50, 70 years. But now you have these talented engineers who've sort of seen those playbooks, both in terms of, they understand what good engineering looks like, they understand the pace of innovation, how quickly you have to bring new products to market, and they also understand that you have to be in touch with your customer, constantly iterating.And so you now have companies that have scaled in these categories where there is this nice thing that happens in Silicon Valley, and I always say it's a mark of a really successful company when three, four, five years into the journey, you start seeing the early people at that company say, “Well, I want to solve this problem,” or “I want to go be a founder, myself,” and they start building more companies. So I think that, in some ways, the natural order of how Silicon Valley progresses, in terms of, do you need to have different expertise, or are there different talent pools? Yes, they're coming from different companies, but it's the same story of Silicon Valley Dynamism, which is, someone comes in, I always joke, they go to the University of Elon Musk and they learn how to manufacture, and then they say, “Well, actually, I don't want to just work on rockets anymore, I'd like to work on nuclear.” And so then you have companies like Radiant Nuclear that have spun out of SpaceX several years ago that are building in a totally different category for the built world, but have that sort of manufacturing expertise, that engineering expertise, and also know what it's like to work in a highly regulated environment.Does it require a different expertise, then, to advise these companies because of that government interface?I think in some ways it does, yes, the types of people who are investing in this category, maybe there's a number of investors where they got their start at Palantir, for example, or they understand the early journey of SpaceX. But at the same time, the thing that I think has been most surprising to us is just how quickly this movement caught on among the broader Silicon Valley ecosystem. And I think that's a very good thing, because, at its core, these are software companies in many cases. Yes, they're building hardware, but software is the lever that's allowing these companies to scale. So you are seeing the traditional venture capital firms that used to say, “Oh, I would never touch anything that is operating in the physical world,” or the meme you had five years ago, which is, “You'll never be able to sell anything to the US government, I'm not wasting my money there.” You've seen a complete 180 in the Silicon Valley ecosystem in terms of venture firms where they're now willing to take bets on these types of companies.And you're also seeing, there's a number of founders where their first company, for example, might've done very well, and it might've just been pure software, or in a consumer enterprise, sort of a more classical Silicon Valley domain, and now you're seeing those founders say, “Actually, I want to build for the civic need. I want to build for the national interests. These are issues I care about.” And so you're seeing those founders actually decide to build in the category and team up with founders who maybe have a little bit more experience in government, or maybe have a little more experience in terms of how they're building in the physical world.From software to the physical world (7:23)That period you referred to, which seems like a lot of what Silicon Valley was doing with the first 15 years or so of this century: they're doing internet, social media, very consumer-facing. How valuable was that period? Because that is a period that, here in Washington, is much criticized as trivial, “Why wasn't Silicon Valley solving these huge problems like we did in the '60s?” Again, there were some critics who just looked at it as a waste of brainpower. To what extent is that a fair criticism, and do you think, is that unfair? That stuff was valuable, people valued the kinds of products that were producedYou would actually be better able to speak to this than me, but I'll say, the graph or the chart that's going viral today, as we speak, is the comparison of 2009 US GDP versus Eurozone GDP, which were roughly equal in 2009, coming right off the Great Recession, to today, which I actually think it was tweeted something like, I think it's. . .  the US is 77 percent greater in terms of GDP than the Eurozone countries, which means that, for some reason, the Silicon Valley ecosystem — and it is largely attributed to Silicon Valley. When I first wrote the thesis on American Dynamism, I looked actually at 1996, because it was 25 years when I published it, but 1996, if you looked at the top US companies by market cap, all six of them were outside of technology as an ecosystem. They were energy companies, I would say almost archaic industries that had grown over a long period of time, but if you look at those six companies today, they are all tech companies. And so something has happened in the 21st century. You could say the new American Century is actually built off the back of software. It's built off of these large tech companies that were built in California, in many cases. And so the 15-year period that you're talking about, which is this sort of, it was a zero-interest-rate environment, cost of capital was very low, there was a lot of experimentation going on, it was, in many ways, the canonical example of American Dynamism broadly, that you had risk capital going after many new ideas in many different areas, but they were particularly really focused on the areas that government was not interested in regulating.And that's always been the theme of innovation in Silicon Valley is, “Let's go where they're not necessarily paying attention.” Maybe you had some one-offs in terms of, you'll always have to meet with your regulator at some point—in the case of Uber or Airbnb—but these companies were really born of the needs that founders understood. They were built off the back of a platform shift in terms of, 2007, 2008, the iPhone becomes the thing that everyone wants to build on, it becomes the mobile era. And so you really did have this focus of software, and enterprise software, and consumer, and companies were able to grow to extraordinary heights. And if you just look at what it has done for US GDP in comparison to even something like Europe, it is really extraordinary. So that is a story that I think we should be celebrating and telling.But what has happened, I think, since Covid is this new shift, which is, we've explored many of the digital frontiers that we can. And of course there's always a new digital frontier. Every time we think it's over, we get hit with a new one — in the case of AI. But the thing that I think has really changed is that entrepreneurs now are not afraid of the physical world, and they are realizing — and I hate to use the word “inevitable,” but in some ways this is an inevitability — that you are going to have to interface with government at a certain point if you are going to build in the physical world. And there are so many opportunities, there are so many different places where founders can build, that that really did take on new meeting post- this slew of black swan events, in the case of Covid, and then of course Russia invaded Ukraine, where I think it did wake up a lot of founders who said, “I want to work on these really hard problems.” And thankfully we have companies that have scaled during that time, that have trained these manufacturing capabilities, they've trained engineers how to do these things. So it is our view that that 15-year period was extraordinary for software, but the next 10 years are going to be extraordinary for these American Dynamism companies, as well.Government collaboration: challenges & opportunities (11:29)When you talk about interfacing with government, what popped into my head was a bit of video of a congressional hearing, and they were trying to decide, do we want to bring the private sector and SpaceX into the space program, and so not just have it be a government effort by NASA? And I just remember these senators just lambasting the idea. And I think they might've brought in some astronauts, too. And if I was interested in interfacing with government and I had seen that video, I'm like, “Boy, oh boy, I hope the attitude of government has changed since then, because it seems like that's a wall.” What is the attitude on the other side? You said the attitude of the entrepreneurs has changed, of funders, but what about on the other side? What is the openness to the kinds of solutions that your companies are presenting?I think it's changed because it has to, and I always point to the late former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who in 2015 started DIUx [Defense Innovation Unit Experimental] as an innovation unit for the DoD [Department of Defense], recognizing that there's a talent problem that US government has had; and it didn't start in the last 10 years. When I was exploring this talent problem, I actually realized that there had been a commission on the lack of talent going into the bureaucracy at the federal level.In the 1990s, Paul Volcker actually chaired the commission, it was called a “Quiet Crisis.” Basically that young people today, unlike in the '50s and the '60s where government was seen as this extraordinary job that you could have or that you could go into one of these companies and work in a company for 30 years and then draw a pension, that young people today want to go work in the private sector, and the growth and dynamism of the private sector has actually been an issue for government, and that is not a new issue. It was explored in the late '80s, early '90s, and it has gotten precipitously worse because of tech. I would say that the technological innovation risk capital going to Silicon Valley and saying, “We're going to fund young people as they come out of college because they understand this new type of engineering.” You're seeing some of the best and brightest young people decide not to go to traditional companies, which has been a huge issue for the prime contractors that supply 40 percent of the government programs for the DoD, but what has happened is you're seeing this extraordinary engineering talent go to startups. And so I think what even — this is 10 years ago now — DIU saw, if all of our best and brightest software talent is avoiding government, or much of it is avoiding government, they're avoiding traditional companies that we work with, we have to meet them where they are.And so the DoD I actually think was the first government organization to really recognize this crisis and to decide, we're going to need to have new interfaces. Now, whether that means new procurement, that's always going to be a debate, and that's a Washington issue that I think we've been fighting for several years now in order to change how these companies are able to work with the DoD on these big programs, but I think even just recognizing that this was an issue 10 years ago was a huge step for government.And over time now, we've seen a handful of what we would call “defense 1.0” companies, in terms of startups, many of them kind of built off the back of a company like SpaceX, now realizing that you can build for USG [US Government], you can build hardware-software hybrid that you can then sell into production contracts, and it's companies like Anduril that were started in 2017 when people said, “This is impossible to do. You're never going to be able to sell to USG,” and this year was chosen for a massive program, the CCA [Collaborative Combat Aircraft] program with the Air Force, over many prime contractors.And so I think that is the story now that Silicon Valley has seen, and I always joke that, particularly investors and founders, they really only need to see a handful of winners to know that something is a category, and so you're going to see more and more of these companies being founded, scaling, and I think that circuitous cycle and that virtuous cycle actually leads more to the DoD saying, “Okay, this is a real ecosystem now.” It's not as risky to take a chance on a startup, which is what government is always worried about, if we take a chance on anything innovative, are we going to look foolish? And so I think, in some ways, you are seeing the government respond to what's happened in the private sector, but this is not something that's a year old, two years old, or three years old, this is something that's been talked about for almost 10 years now, and of course SpaceX now is an over-20-year-old company.Is this still primarily a Defense Department-focused effort? Are there other areas of government who are looking at what's happening with DoD and they're drawing lessons? How diverse of an effort has this become?We see this across every sector that government cares about. So it's not just defense, it's aerospace, it's energy, it's logistics, it's transportation. We always joke, if there is a department in Washington that exists to regulate a sector, that is American Dynamism, and you are seeing innovation in those sectors. But it's happening at different rates. I'd say the DoD is one of the largest spenders. The largest private US company right now is SpaceX, so there's success in those categories, so you're seeing a lot of interest in it now, but then there's companies in public safety. That's an area where I think there's just been an extraordinary explosion of innovation in the last few years, largely driven by the fact that there is a labor crisis happening in public safety across America, but it is a different sale, it's not selling to federal government, selling to state and local.One of our companies, Flock Safety, which I mentioned at the beginning of our chat, they now are involved in solving 10 percent of vehicular crimes in America.What do they do?So, it's a great story about a company that was founded in Atlanta in 2017, and they built a very small modular license plate reader that only tracks cars, not people, and started building for homeowners associations with the recognition that most crimes in America are committed with a car, and so if you can put these in areas of high traffic, areas to augment the work of law enforcement, crime will go down. And they started selling to homeowners associations and immediately got pull around Atlanta and suburban Atlanta from police chiefs who said, “I need 10 of these in areas where we don't have enough people who can look at different areas.”So now this company is operating across America, they're in all 50 states, and what's extraordinary about what they've been able to do as a technology company, just putting up cameras in different sectors and following cars, is one of the hardest problems for law enforcement is when a car that has committed at theft or — one of the most extraordinary stories they've told us recently was there was a young girl kidnapped, a young child kidnapped in Atlanta, and the car went into a different county. And so when that happens, for law enforcement it's often one of the most difficult things, if a car goes into a different county, to do data sharing across these places. But if you have a network of cameras that can track the car, you find that kidnapped child, or you find that stolen vehicle much, much faster. In many ways, catching the cars at the moment where they've moved from county to county has actually solved one of the bigger data issues that law enforcement has.What's interesting about this example — and it provides a nice lead-in to my next question — is, in that situation, the solution wasn't to help the various databases communicate better, it was a completely different sort of solution. So, are what these companies doing — it seems like what they're not doing is taking existing operations and improving efficiency, but providing a new way to approach the problem that they're trying to tackle.Yes. And what's incredible about that story is it was not started as a company that was supposed to support law enforcement. It was started for homeowners associations, it was a consumerization of a civic problem. And I think that's what's really interesting is, one of the biggest issues, and this is why I think you're now seeing really interesting technology companies enter government at all levels is, you have a population that has grown up with consumer technology now. So as the boomers retire, the boomers remember what it was like to be in government, or to be in office places without Zoom, without the consumer internet, and without the things that make life much easier and tangible, as those people retire, you have young people demanding, “We have to use better technology.”And so the solutions are not, “Okay, let's iterate on the existing systems that we've used for the last 10 or 20 years,” it's, “Why can't my experience when I walk into my job in government feel exactly the same way that it does when I walk into my home and I experience the consumerization of everything around me?”So I think that is part of it, that you have this millennial generation that's now coming into leadership. In many cases, you have people who don't necessarily remember the world before the internet or didn't have formative experiences in the workplace or in government before the internet. And that is shaping and reshaping all of how government functions, and likely will for the next 20 years. The thing that, especially when we talk about the Department of Defense and the warfighter, the thing that has always been tragic is that you have more technology in your phone than you do when you go onto the battlefield. And so I think there's this understanding that young people are demanding to have the same level of technology and the same ease-of-use in all aspects of governance, in all aspects of civic goods.Playing the long-game in Washington (21:16)You seem like a very upbeat, positive person. My experience as people from Silicon Valley — or now, in your case, from Miami, a new startup hotbed — they come through Washington, they bring that optimism with them, then after a few days of dealing with people on Capitol Hill, the optimism is drained out of them, they go back shells of their former selves, because if you've dealt with a lot of people on Capitol Hill and staffers, what they're really good at saying is, “That will never pass . . . that will take 20 years . . . three of my predecessors worked on it, it didn't work . . .” How have you been able to maintain a fairly upbeat attitude, given that this is the world that your companies have to deal with?I agree with you that one of the biggest problems that we see, and which we joke about, is that the only reason why people in Silicon Valley 10 years ago were going to Washington was to apologize for the things that they did. They would get hauled in front of Congress, say they're sorry, and so I think what we've seen in these sectors, in particular, is it's a specific type of founder and person who knows that this is very mission-driven. They are called to build these companies. They care about these companies. They're passionate about the national interest. And so they know they have to go to Washington repeatedly, and I think some of the mistakes that, say, founders who had no exposure to Washington, or have no exposure to regulated industries, when they would go to Washington, they'd say, okay, maybe I go once a year, shake some hands, it's kind of fun, and then I go back and I build, and they would be surprised when they got nowhere. And of course, I think that the most sophisticated companies recognize that they have to learn to play the game that Washington cares about. And there is a totally different culture in Washington, there's a totally different set of incentives. I say it's really the difference between, Silicon Valley is a positive-sum culture: Everyone helps everyone, knowing that the pie can always get bigger, and you always want a piece of that bigger pie as it's growing, and so the more things that you're doing, the better. It's why we have this beautiful angel investing network. It's why we have all of these things that make no sense to people in Washington where it's elections, where 10,000 votes in a state could decide the election, and it's a zero-sum game, and that is what decides who is in office and who is in think tanks. And so it's a very different way of thinking about things.The thing that I think has changed the most about Silicon Valley is recognizing, we might not be good at zero-sum games and zero-sum thinking, but that is the people that we are interfacing with, and we need to understand their incentive systems when they decide to make a purchasing decision, when they decide whether they're going to vote on a bill in a certain way, when they think about, what do their constituents care about back home in a place that has nothing to do with Silicon Valley or California. So I think that level of empathy for what Washington does, which is very different than what Silicon Valley does, is important.Is it hard to stay optimistic? There are times where you're banging your head against the wall, we're on very short time horizons, Washington can go in perpetuity doing what it does without necessarily seeing much change. But having those points of connection, and constantly having the conversation, and recognizing that it is a long game and not a short game, I think has been very beneficial, and now there are success stories: Palantir, Anduril, Shield AI, these companies that have been around for 10 years now, that have really shown that it is possible to do good work and to support the needs of the DoD, and to speak the language of the DoD, as well, I think has really led to this next generation of founders understanding what they need to do to be successful as well.Building the American Dream (24:35)What kind of world are you trying to create? I'm sure it's intellectually challenging, I'm sure it's well-paying, but, fundamentally, why are you doing this? And I would think it's to create some world that is better than the one we're currently living. What is the world you're trying to create?I think there is a recognition post-Covid, in particular, for a lot of young people, a lot of engineers, that things were broken, things are broken in this country. The physical world has not kept up with the digital world, and there's been extraordinary changes, technology is moving as fast as it possibly can, and a lot of the things that people care the most about have been left out of that story: Education, which is something we haven't necessarily talked about yet, but education needs to be completely transformed in an era where technology is at our fingertips and where people who are good at learning learn faster than they ever possibly could, and people who are not good at learning don't, and so you have a disparity between those people.But there's an extraordinary amount of change that has happened in the last 25 years where the things that American citizens care most about have not changed in the way that they need to keep up with, again, the changes in the consumer internet and what we've seen in the enterprise.And so the story of, how do we make America strong? How do we continue to be the most dynamic country in the world? How do we make sure that all American citizens and the things they care about most in terms of the American Dream are part of that story? I think that is something that the founders who work in American Dynamism care deeply about. They recognize, and I always point this out, but there are so many founders now who are working at companies like Anduril, like Saronic, where they don't necessarily even remember September 11th — they weren't old enough — but they care deeply about the idea that America needs to be a strong country, and that we need to have a mode of deterrence, and we need to have a strong national defense that keeps America the most dynamic country so that people can build inside of it. The same thing with recognizing that there needs to be changes in housing, needs to be changes in education, these are things that were part of the American Dream when our parents were growing up and feel a little bit distant for a lot of other young people growing up today. So I think there is a recognition that technology has to be a part of those big sectors in order to support the American Dream that many of us grew up with and that many of us aspire to.Faster, Please! is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fasterplease.substack.com/subscribe

Columbia Police Chief Jill Schlude admits violent crime statistics are a bit complicated, without an understanding of how they work. Chief Schlude joined us live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Mid-Missouri", telling listeners that violent crime in Columbia has increased by four percent this year. Chief Schlude says violent crime includes murder, rape, robbery and assault. Chief Schlude met this week with CPD's analyst to get the new numbers. We also discussed the proposed Flock camera system during the live interview. Columbia Police have drafted a policy regarding the appropriate use of the proposed Flock Safety camera program system. CPD recently held eight sessions across the city to get feedback on the issue, and Chief Schlude tells listeners that many of the comments are supportive, while some are against it. CPD says Flock Safety technology would be used to combat crime in the city. CPD hopes to purchase and implement automatic license plate readers in the city. CPD says Flock Safety cameras support law enforcement by offering objective evidence that's crucial for solving cases. CPD says the cameras would provide real-time alerts to law enforcement when they detect stolen vehicles or suspect vehicles listed in local, state or national crime databases. CPD says Flock Safety cameras record license plate numbers and vehicle details like make, model and color, but don't capture identifiable images of people or their faces. CPD says vehicles are involved in 70 percent of crimes. Chief Schlude tells listeners that she's optimistic that Columbia's city council will approve the Flock proposal in September. She says she's worked with city manager De'Carlon Seewood and others to address concerns raised by the city council during the FUSUS camera discussion. Chief Schlude describes herself as an eternal optimist:

Columbia Police are holding four additional meetings today for you to learn details about CPD's plans to use the Flock Safety camera system. Columbia Police hope to purchase and implement automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in the city. CPD has drafted a policy on the appropriate uses of the camera system, and they outlined that policy at four separate meetings yesterday. Columbia Police Officers Association (CPOA) president Matt Nichols joined us live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Mid-Missouri", telling listeners that Flock has been in Columbia and Boone County for years. CPD says the cameras would provide real-time alerts to law enforcement when they detect stolen vehicles or suspect vehicles listed in local, state or national crime databases. Mr. Nichols tells listeners that Jefferson City Police use Flock, as do the Callaway and Cooper County Sheriff's departments. He says they are used for almost every investigation because criminals use vehicles when they commit violent crimes, rather than walk or ride the bus. There has been concerns raised by some progressives and some conservatives about the plan, with some progressives worrying the cameras could be used to track transgender residents or follow residents who have an abortion. Mr. Nichols tells listeners there is no possibility of that happening now or in the future. CPD is holding four additional meetings today. The first one was this morning at the Crossing church. The others are: ** Noon in the Columbia city council chambers ** 3 pm at Gentry middle school on Bethel ** 7 pm at Boone Electric's community room on Rangeline.

Columbia Police are holding four additional meetings today for you to learn details about CPD's plans to use the Flock Safety camera system. Columbia Police hope to purchase and implement automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in the city. CPD has drafted a policy on the appropriate uses of the camera system, and they outlined that policy at four separate meetings yesterday. Columbia Police Officers Association (CPOA) president Matt Nichols joined us live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Mid-Missouri", telling listeners that Flock has been in Columbia and Boone County for years. CPD says the cameras would provide real-time alerts to law enforcement when they detect stolen vehicles or suspect vehicles listed in local, state or national crime databases. Mr. Nichols tells listeners that Jefferson City Police use Flock, as do the Callaway and Cooper County Sheriff's departments. He says they are used for almost every investigation because criminals use vehicles when they commit violent crimes, rather than walk or ride the bus. There has been concerns raised by some progressives and some conservatives about the plan, with some progressives worrying the cameras could be used to track transgender residents or follow residents who have an abortion. Mr. Nichols tells listeners there is no possibility of that happening now or in the future. CPD is holding four additional meetings today. The first one was this morning at the Crossing church. The others are: ** Noon in the Columbia city council chambers ** 3 pm at Gentry middle school on Bethel ** 7 pm at Boone Electric's community room on Rangeline.

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Noticias Económicas y Financieras ¡Bienvenidos a la primera sesión de negociación de la segunda mitad del año! El índice de referencia S&P 500 ha arrojado un impresionante 14.5 % en lo que va de 2024, impulsado por las ganancias hasta la fecha de empresas de alto rendimiento como Super Micro Computer $SMCI +188%, Nvidia $NVDA +149%, Vistra Corp. $VST +123%, y Constellation Energy $CEG +71%. Los titulares internacionales llegan desde Francia esta mañana después de que el Agrupamiento Nacional de Marine Le Pen y Jordan Bardella obtuviera una victoria en la primera vuelta de las elecciones legislativas. Se proyectaba que el partido y sus aliados habrían ganado el 33% de los votos, en comparación con el 29% de la coalición Nuevo Frente Popular y un distante tercer lugar para el partido Renacimiento del presidente Macron con el 22%. Macron había convocado previamente elecciones anticipadas después de ser derrotado en las elecciones parlamentarias de la UE hace un mes, pero la apuesta por un momento de "aclaración" parece haber fracasado. $BA Boeing acordó adquirir Spirit AeroSystems $SPR por 37.25 dólares por acción en un acuerdo de $4.7B en acciones que dará al fabricante de aviones más control sobre su cadena de suministro en medio de los problemas de seguridad actuales. El acuerdo revertiría efectivamente la escisión de Spirit por parte de Boeing en 2005, que tenía como objetivo reducir los costos mediante la subcontratación del ensamblaje de fuselajes y otras piezas. Se dice que FedEx $FDX comparte transmisiones de vigilancia con las autoridades locales como parte de una red de vigilancia de automóviles con IA. Las transmisiones provienen de cámaras impulsadas por inteligencia artificial fabricadas por Flock Safety, que tiene presencia en 4.000 ciudades en más de 40 estados, según Forbes. En medio de la creciente demanda de electricidad para alimentar los centros de datos de IA, la industria tecnológica está tomando medidas para asegurar un suministro constante a través de plantas de energía nuclear. El último en el centro de atención es un posible acuerdo entre Amazon $AMZN Web Services y Constellation Energy $CEG. Inside Out 2 lidera las ventas de taquilla, superando los $1B y estableciendo un nuevo récord. $BLK BlackRock comprará el proveedor de datos del Reino Unido Preqin en un acuerdo de $3.2B. $TSLA Tesla tiene algunas pruebas importantes en el calendario antes del evento robotaxi.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology provided by Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based company, helped the Blue Springs Police Department in Missouri arrest a murder suspect. The AI-equipped camera system, similar to license plate readers, strategically placed at high-traffic intersections and popular locations, aided in identifying the suspect's vehicle based on characteristics such as make, model, and distinguishing features. Human analysts then examined the snapshots for a more precise match with a license plate. The responsible use of AI technology was crucial in assisting the investigation and led to the arrest of Marquis Earl-Lee Savannah on a warrant for first-degree murder. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tonyphoang/message

Garrett Langley is the CEO of Flock Safety, a $4B company helping solve 10% of US crimes with AI-powered tech. Garrett offers an in-depth look into Flock Safety's ambitious vision to eliminate crime in America and all the operating lessons he's learned along the way, including how to build a strong and motivated team, keep people accountable, and leverage PR for rapid growth. (00:00) Intro(01:03) The Mission to Eliminate Crime with Innovative Tech(01:54) The Genesis of Flock Safety: A Response to High Crime Rates(07:48) The Evolution of Flock Safety's Crime-Fighting Technology(24:37) Impact Stories: How Flock Safety is Changing Lives(31:00) Navigating the Balance: Safety, Privacy, and Community Impact(36:58) Exploring the Universal Appeal of Safety Across America(37:38) The Role of Community Decisions in Public Safety(39:02) Addressing Misinformation and Enhancing Safety with Technology(39:58) Collaboration and Data Sharing Among Cities(41:26) The Impact of Technology on Policing and Public Safety(43:24) Innovative Solutions to Modern Policing Challenges(49:18) Flock's Vision for the Future of Public Safety(56:05) Building a Business on Solving Crime(56:38) The Importance of Team and Culture in Business Success(01:10:45) Navigating Growth and Maintaining Culture in a Scaling Company(01:12:33) Cultivating a Strong Remote Work Culture(01:12:46) The Power of Cultural Norms in Business(01:13:01) Building Accountability and Responsiveness(01:14:16) The Importance of In-Person Interactions in a Hybrid Company(01:14:50) Assessing Substantive Work Over Managing Up(01:17:50) The Strategy of Being a Macro Optimist and Micro Pessimist(01:20:16) Celebrating Milestones and Focusing on Impact(01:21:58) The Unique Dynamic of Working with Family(01:30:42) Reflections on Early Success and the Drive to Build Meaningful Companies(01:37:58) Overcoming Fundraising Challenges and Understanding Market Dynamics(01:46:55) Concluding Thoughts and the Future of Flock Safety  Produced: Rashad Assir & Leah ClapperMixed and edited: Justin HrabovskyExecutive Producer: Josh Machiz

You've probably heard about all the Automatic License Plate Reader cameras being installed around the Bay Area, 400 new ones in San Francisco, almost 400 in Oakland and on state highways in the East Bay, dozens more in cities from Alameda to Palo Alto. These are not video surveillance cameras, they are cameras that capture license plate and vehicle data, to help police agencies track down stolen cars and cars involved in crimes. Neighborhood associations are also embracing them, installing them on their own, but some people and organizations have raised concerns, from worries about privacy to the fear of creating a surveillance state, to concerns about racial profiling and the misuse of the data. For more on this KCBS Radio's Political Reporter Doug Sovern spoke with Holly Beilin with Flock Safety, a private company based in Atlanta that's become the leader in this industry since it was founded just seven years ago. It is providing most of the cameras for this new surveillance network across the Bay Area, it has the contracts with San Francisco, the state of California and many neighborhood groups, including the one in my own neighborhood in Oakland.

Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum responds to an article in the Tulsa World about Tulsa's status as a WELCOMING city for immigrants, and the distinction between that and a SANCTUARY city. An Oklahoma State Rep says flock cameras are being used for insurance. Bynum has no idea what he's talking about.

Exploring the new license plate recognition technology that the Coldwater Police Department is utilizing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Future of Field Service podcast, host Sarah Nicastro welcomes back Roy Dockery, Vice President of Field Operations at Flock Safety and author of the new book "The Art of Leading," for a discussion around the mindset and practices that lead to impactful and effective leadership. Roy stands out as a transformative leader in the service sector, keynote speaker, and creator of an innovative leadership model based on truth, love, and empathy to enhance impact. His background as a millennial executive and former military personnel has trained him to effectively manage diverse, cross-generational teams across various industries. Through his book, "The Art of Leading: Truth, Love and Empathy in Action," Roy shares this model with 13 fundamental principles, providing real examples of their application. He was also recognized as one of Hot Topic's top 100 Service Visionaries by a panel of global industry experts. Moreover, Roy is the voice behind the Savage Truth Podcast, a music artist, and an internationally recognized public speaker. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

In this episode of LPM's Inside Scoop Podcast, Stefanie Hoover chats with Mike Combs and Rich McElwain from Flock Safety, two former loss prevention and law enforcement professionals. They discuss how to partner with law enforcement, as Rich and Mike share some examples of recent case closures. If you're curious about closing cases faster with less leg work, and how to leverage  Flock Safety's license plate recognition technology, this is a can't-miss!

Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That's 10 percent of reported crimes nationwide.Taken from a16z's recent LP Summit, a16z General Partner David Ulevitch  joins forces with Flock Safety's founder, Garrett Langley and Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Together, they cover the delicate balance between using technology to combat crime and respecting individual privacy, and explore the use of drones and facial recognition, building trust within communities, and the essence of objective policing. Resources: Find Garret on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glangleyFind Sheriff McMahill on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Sheriff_LVMPDFind David on Twitter:https://twitter.com/daviduLearn more about Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com Stay Updated: Find a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16z Find a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/ Follow our host: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

Podcast: a16z Podcast Episode: Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public SafetyRelease date: 2024-01-10Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That's 10 percent of reported crimes nationwide.Taken from a16z's recent LP Summit, a16z General Partner David Ulovich  joins forces with Flock Safety's founder, Garrett Langley and Sheriff Kevin McMayhill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Together, they cover the delicate balance between using technology to combat crime and respecting individual privacy, and explore the use of drones and facial recognition, building trust within communities, and the essence of objective policing. Resources: Find Garret on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glangleyFind Sheriff McMayhill on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Sheriff_LVMPDFind David on Twitter:https://twitter.com/daviduLearn more about Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com Stay Updated: Find a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16z Find a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/ Follow our host: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

Podcast: a16z Podcast Episode: Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public SafetyRelease date: 2024-01-10Flock is a public safety technology platform that operates in over 4,000 cities across the United States, and solves about 2,200 crimes daily. That's 10 percent of reported crimes nationwide.Taken from a16z's recent LP Summit, a16z General Partner David Ulevitch  joins forces with Flock Safety's founder, Garrett Langley and Sheriff Kevin McMahill of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Together, they cover the delicate balance between using technology to combat crime and respecting individual privacy, and explore the use of drones and facial recognition, building trust within communities, and the essence of objective policing. Resources: Find Garret on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glangleyFind Sheriff McMahill on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/Sheriff_LVMPDFind David on Twitter:https://twitter.com/daviduLearn more about Flock Safety: https://www.flocksafety.com Stay Updated: Find a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16z Find a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16z Subscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/ Follow our host: https://twitter.com/stephsmithio Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures.

The tables are turned in this episode as Roy Dockery, VP of Field Operations at Flock Safety, interviews Sarah about here 2023 predictions and how accurate she feels she was. The two also discuss some of the industry events they both attended and reflect on overall trends of the year.

What's the key to delivering exceptional service in today's fast-paced world? In this roundtable discussion featuring leading service visionaries, Sarah Nicastro of IFS, Jan Van Veen of moreMomentum, Andy Cachaldora of GE Healthcare Digital, Roy Dockery of Flock Safety, and Malavika Tohani of Verdantix. With decades of combined experience driving service innovation, these experts explore the evolving role of technology, data, and culture in delighting customers. We believe in the power of community Join 15,000+ global leaders in the fastest-growingC-suite community Through our global community, inspirational business leaders and industry experts share insights and expertise, build meaningful connections and set the agenda for purposeful change.Join here

As service delivery evolves, what does it take to become a service visionary? Watch our Service Visionaries 100 roundtable to hear from industry leaders driving change. Hosted in partnership with IFS, the discussion features: - Sarah Nicastro, VP of Customer Engagement at IFS- Jan Van Veen, Managing Director of moreMomentum - Andy Cachaldora, General Manager of GE Healthcare - Roy Dockery, VP Field Operations of Flock Safety - Malavika Tohani, Research director at VerdantixWith their diverse expertise across technology, operations and customer engagement, this all-star panel provides unique insights on the future of service. Don't miss their visionary perspectives on this forward-thinking edition of Service Visionaries 100. Listen to the podcast and hear these service visionaries discuss the innovations shaping the future of service delivery and customer experience. Their diverse perspectives and insights will give you a fresh outlook on how to lead and drive change in your own organisation. We believe in the power of community Join 15,000+ global leaders in the fastest-growingC-suite community Through our global community, inspirational business leaders and industry experts share insights and expertise, build meaningful connections and set the agenda for purposeful change.Join here

Andy discusses the rise of Flock Safety Cameras and how they track your license plate and collect your data. Learn how these cameras work, how the police search for you, and what you need to know as you travel this holiday season.    Read more on Flock Safety cameras from The Secure Dad: https://www.thesecuredad.com/post/what-is-a-flock-camera   Piedmont Police Department Transparency Portal: https://transparency.flocksafety.com/piedmont-ca-pd    ✅ I need your opinion on how to better serve you. Can you take a 3-minute survey?  

We explore some of the controversies surrounding Wisconsin's top election official. Then, learn about Flock Safety cameras, and how police are using them to surveil communities. We look at Milwaukee County's Birth to 3 Program. Plus, Dig In! explores the bounty of this harvest season.

Garrett Langley is out to change the world, one neighborhood at a time. He is the founder and CEO of Flock Safety, a fast-growing company that makes surveillance products to help law enforcement solve crimes. Its cameras and license plate readers are in 3,000 cities. Nationwide, about 7% of crimes that happen, will be solved because of Flock Safety, Langley said, at that pace the company will reach 10% by the end of 2023.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Flock Safety says its new Raven system can not only detect gunfire, it can record it, report it in real time, and triangulate the location

CTL Script/ Top Stories of June 10 Saturday Publish Date: June 9 Friday   Henssler :15 From the Ingles Studio Welcome to the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast    Today is Tuesday, June 10th, and happy heavenly birthday to famous attorney F Lee Bailey ***Bailey***     I'm Brian Giffin and here are the top stories Cherokee is talking about, presented by Credit Union of Georgia State award named after longtime Cherokee County fire safety pioneer Report finds automatic voter registration growing voter rolls in Georgia And the Cherokee Sheriff's Office receives over $500K grant for cameras to talk about high grocery prices     We'll have all this and more coming up on the Cherokee Tribune-Ledger Podcast      Commercial:  CU of GA   Story 1. award     The Georgia Public Safety Educators Association (GPSEA) has honored Capt. Ann Segers, a long-serving firefighter and fire safety educator in Cherokee County, by naming its Educator of the Year award after her. Segers, who joined the fire department in 1988, was instrumental in promoting fire safety and education in the community. She was the first person in Georgia to obtain credentials as an NPQ Fire Safety Educator and made significant contributions to the field. After her retirement in 2005, Segers continued volunteering with the department until her passing in May 2022. The first Ann Segers Educator of the Year Award will be presented at the 2024 Georgia Fire Safety Symposium. Read more on this story at tribuneledgernews.com     STORY 2: voters   According to a report by the Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR), Georgia's voter registration rate increased from 78% to 98% during the first four years of implementing automatic voter registration. The state introduced automatic registration in 2016, updating voter records whenever an individual updates their driver's license information. The report also highlights that 97% of Georgians have both a driver's license and Social Security number associated with their voter registration, improving the accuracy of voter rolls. The registration rate has become more representative of Georgia's population, with a narrower gap between the overall population of younger voters and registered voters. The report also shows a significant decrease in inactive voters on the rolls. Automatic voter registration has proven successful, saving taxpayer dollars and reducing voter challenges.   Story 3: 500k   The Cherokee Sheriff's Office has been awarded a $518,000 grant from the state to purchase new license plate-reading cameras. The funds will be used to buy 35 Flock Safety cameras, which can capture license plates, and cover their maintenance for five years. These cameras are valuable for locating missing and wanted individuals and are frequently utilized by detectives investigating crimes. The grant is part of a larger allocation of over $83 million for public safety projects throughout the state. The funding aims to enhance law enforcement staffing, support violent crime reduction initiatives, and invest in technology and equipment to address community violence exacerbated by the pandemic. The grant is provided through the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program established by the American Rescue Plan Act.   Back in a moment   Break:  ESOG -  Detox- Drake   STORY 4: health   The Cherokee County Health Department is organizing Back to School Health Clinics at their Canton and Woodstock Health Centers. The clinics will take place on July 18, 25, and August 8, from 1 to 6 p.m. These clinics will provide required screenings for hearing, dental, vision, BMI/nutrition, with a total cost of $60. Additionally, immunizations necessary for school children will be offered at a cost of $21.90 each for uninsured or underinsured individuals. Various insurance providers, including Medicaid, Peachcare for Kids, and private insurers, are accepted. The Canton office is located at 1219 Univeter Road, and the Woodstock location is at 7545 N. Main St. For more information, contact 770-345-7371 for Canton or 770-928-0133 for Woodstock.   Story 5: water gm   The Cherokee County Water and Sewerage Authority (CCWSA) will hold a called meeting on June 8 at 1 p.m. at their offices in Canton. The purpose of the meeting is to interview applicants for the position of assistant general manager. As per Georgia law, these interviews can be conducted in an executive session. The CCWSA offices are located at 110 Railroad St. in Canton.     Story 6:  fca   The Fellowship of Christian Athletes Cherokee is hosting a fundraiser called "UGA Night of Champions" on July 7 at First Baptist Church Woodstock. The event will feature inspirational talks from current and former University of Georgia football stars, including Ben Watson, Sedrick Van Pran, and Malaki Starks. Former Bulldog Head Coach Mark Richt will also be a featured speaker and present the Cherokee FCA Coach of the Year Award. The event aims to raise funds for the nonprofit's year-long activities, and while tickets are free, individual donations will be accepted. The evening will include a silent auction with signed memorabilia and local business displays.   Back, after this   Commercial: Elon - Ingles 10   Story 7: soccer   Phil Thomas, the head coach of the River Ridge boys soccer team, has been named the Cherokee County Coach of the Year for 2023. Under Thomas' leadership, the Knights had a remarkable season, reaching the Class 6A state championship game and winning their second consecutive region title. With a strong and well-rounded roster, including standout players like Matthew Dean, Rezin Samstag, and Gracen VanGilder, River Ridge demonstrated their talent and competitiveness. Despite facing initial challenges, the team finished the season with an impressive record and showcased their abilities in tight games throughout the playoffs. Looking ahead, Thomas is optimistic about the future of the program, with key players set to return in 2024.     Story 8:  P.O.Y.   Matthew Dean, a standout player for the River Ridge boys soccer team, had a remarkable season in 2023. He led the Knights to the Class 6A state championship game after helping them win the Region6 6A title for the second consecutive year. Dean's contributions were instrumental in the team's deep postseason run, as he scored 11 goals and provided six assists. His outstanding performance earned him the title of the 2023 Cherokee County Boys Soccer Player of the Year. Despite a slow start to the season, Dean and his teammates displayed resilience and fought their way to the championship game, ultimately finishing as runners-up. Dean's speed and skill were key factors in the team's success throughout the playoffs.   Final thoughts after this   Henssler 60   Thanks again for spending time with us listening to today's Cherokee Tribune Ledger podcast. Get more on these stories and other great content at tribune ledger news.com. Giving you important information about our community and telling great stories are who we are. Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. 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Introduction: Welcome to Five & Thrive: a weekly podcast highlighting the Southeast's most interesting news, entrepreneurs, and information of the week, all under 5 minutes.  My name is Jon Birdsong and I'm with Atlanta Ventures. Companies Worth Applying To: There are several companies looking for SDR's including Greenzie, AdPipe, and Copient Health. If you or any of your network know a talented recent graduate looking to break into sales, I cannot recommend these options enough. SDR's are needed across many companies and these three are ones I know that will cultivate them into a valuable, qualified, and efficient sales professional.   Event of the Week: Last week I was on the Friday Nooner with Pete, Jackie, and Joe of GrepBeat and through our wonderful conversation, was reminded that Grep-a-palooza is coming up on June 1st. It is being held in Raleigh and has a great set of topics and discussion points. We put the link to the entire agenda in the show notes.  Company Coming Up: I came across a unique and fast growing company out of Decatur this week called Volanto. Founded in 2014,. Volantio frees airlines from the constraints of fixed capacity and they do this through a dynamic platform that moves select customers on popular services to alternate off-peak choices post-booking (with compensation).  This is fully automated self-service process which allows airlines to secure more prime capacity, improved guest satisfaction, all while significantly improving their bottom line.  Volantio's customers include 15+ airlines globally.. Volantio was founded by Azim Barodawala and Fenn Bailey and they just raised their Series A last September which includes customer, Alaska Airlines. Impressive progress.  LinkedIn Post of the Week: I follow several thought leaders whether it's on LInkedIn or Twitter and every now and then one post just blows me away with its simplicity and timeliness and that happened with a recent post from Seth Radman. Seth is the CTO of Infinite Giving and has built dozens and dozens of products and one of his most recent posts just struck such a wonderful chord was around MVP's and pushing out a product. He writes: “If your MVP doesn't immediately drive word of mouth growth, improving the product won't help. Adding more features to something that didn't get people excited on Day 1 won't make it better.” The simplicity in this message makes it resonate so well. If future customers in your market are not getting excited about the value prop of your product, it will never matter that the degree of it's robustness or functionality. At Atlanta Ventures, we call this authentic demand and it is required for a market – even if it is initially a niche market – to build something successful. Great thought leadership Seth and keep creating.  Platform Announcement of the Week: FlockSafety, which helped secure a dangerous shooter in Atlanta two weeks ago, announced a major product and really platform evolution in the business. Their 4 major products which includes their license plate reader (LPR), now incorporate the Flock Safety Raven product, their FlockOS product and the FlockSafety Condor. This mix of software around audio, video, and streaming services makes up for their full suite of services to fight crime in communities and I can tell you, as my kid's school was locked down two weeks ago, I'm very glad these advancements are being made.   Flock Safety currently serves 3,000 communities across the U.S. The company's devices and software provide the evidence for police to solve about 7% of reported crime in the U.S.   Raise a Glass: This week, Eskuad out of the Atlanta Tech Village raised $1.6M led by Outlander VC. Eskuad is a mobile-first data platform built specifically for field operations. You don't even need wireless access. Their products help you build forms, enter data, manage tasks and teams, with world-class offline function. Customers are saving 20% in operational costs and getting reports delivered 20x faster. Congrats to Eskuad on the round and the future ahead.  Annnnnd that's five minutes! Companies Worth Applying To: SDR's need at AdPipe, Greenzie, and Copient Event of the Week: Grep-a-palooza Company Coming Up: Volantio  LinkedIn Post of the Week: Seth Radman's Post Platform Release of the Week: FlockSafety Raise a Glass: Eskuad

In this episode, we're joined by Garrett Langley of Flock Safety to discuss the nature of crime in our society. How to decrease crime, and how to build a hyper-growth startup outside of the major hubs. 

Open Source: What's up with the new traffic cameras in Ontario?: https://www.richlandsource.com/open_source/open-source-what-s-up-with-the-new-traffic-cameras-in-ontario/article_5faf8c40-719b-11ed-9518-d7824e420f23.html Here are tips for camping during winter like a pro: https://www.richlandsource.com/life_and_culture/outdoor/here-are-tips-for-camping-during-winter-like-a-pro/article_99549d98-474d-5abb-9dea-47cfc496dd99.html Today - What's up with the new traffic cameras in Ontario? The Ontario Police Department in Ohio recently announced that they will be posting 20 Flock Safety cameras on roads around the city in order to improve safety.Support the show: https://www.sourcemembers.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mutual action plans (MAPs) are a no-brainer for your sales team if you're looking to make the most of every deal – especially if your sales are complex and involve multiple stakeholders. When you proactively align with buyers on a clear path to a buying decision, deal velocity and win rates increase! In this masterclass, we dive into what great MAPs look like, how to implement them across your sales team, and how to get your reps actually using MAPs consistently. Featuring sales pros: Manuel Hartmann, CEO & Founder at SalesPlaybook – SalesPlaybook's CEO & founder; worked with 200+ B2B entrepreneurs to help them accelerate their market traction Milena Kaul, VP of Sales at Atrium – experienced B2B sales leader; previously Senior Sales Director at Flock Safety and SalesLoft Christian Krause, AE at Salesforce – Account Executive partnering with Switzerland startups & VCs; sales advisor helping junior salespeople crush quotas Want the key takeaways from this masterclass? Check out this blog on Mutual Action Plan best practices.

In a session from the Austin stop of the Future of Field Service Live Tour, Sarah talks with Katy Chandler, VP of Learning and Development at DuraServ and Roy Dockery, VP of Field Operations at Flock Safety, about the tactics they've implemented to not only find new talent, but also accelerate their time to value and maximize retention.

In April, a young girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Yakima, Wash., and later told police she was picked up by a stranger in a car. The case might have gone cold there, if Yakima hadn't just installed Flock Safety cameras: The cameras were able to pinpoint a car matching the girl's description, and picked up the alleged abductor outside an elementary school campus, says Flock CEO Garrett Langley, who says stories like this have validated his company's mission of stopping crime in our communities.In this episode, Garrett and Joubin discuss a “huge life hack” that Garrett recommends to every CEO with young kids, quarter-life crises and how to rediscover your purpose, the biggest problem in public safety, how Flock Safety is solving thousands of crimes every year, the politics of surveillance camera placement, how Flock cameras became a feature of political campaigns, and how the company almost went out of business before its Series B.In this episode, we cover: Why Garrett's executive assistant is his mother (02:06) “I had no idea that people started companies” (13:07) Garrett's quarter-life crisis after two great startup exits (16:59) How Flock Safety helps law enforcement make communities safer (23:49) Solving a child abduction in Washington state (27:27) Why Garrett and his co-founders started Flock (31:22) The impact of Flock cameras on communities that don't trust the police (36:35) Political controversies and community engagement (39:18) Making cities safer and talent drain from local police departments (47:11) The challenges of fundraising for a police-tech startup in Atlanta (53:42) “Protect the whole community” (01:00:12) The public markets downturn (01:03:33) Links: Connect with Garrett Twitter LinkedIn Connect with Joubin Twitter LinkedIn Email: grit@kleinerperkins.com  Learn more about Kleiner Perkins

On the podcast we talk with Eric about the importance of refining your pitch, how to build a moat in consumer SaaS, and why your month one churn might not be as bad as you think.Our guest today is Eric Stromberg, the Founder & Managing Partner of Bedrock, a technology investment firm currently managing approximately one billion dollars. The firm has made investments in companies like Flock Safety, Plaid, Cameo, The Athletic, and more. Eric is also the Founder of Check, the payroll infrastructure API and Universe Software, the holding company for Vertical Fintech businesses.In this episode, you'll learn: Why higher churn rates at launch are OK How to maintain a competitive advantage for your subscription app Why Eric is bullish about the future of Consumer SaaS Links & Resources Barry McCarthy Sub Club podcast episode 031: Growth, Revenue, and Marketing Strategies for Your App — Lisa Kennelly, Fishbrain Equilab Eric Stromberg's Links Eric's website Follow Eric on Twitter Bedrock Check payroll optimization Universe Software Screenshot Essays Follow us on Twitter: David Barnard Jacob Eiting RevenueCat Sub Club

Explore Gwinnett announced this past week that it plans to install more than 100 Flock Safety cameras at all hotel properties in the county in an effort to fight crime and help police locate wanted individuals.  #GwinnettDailyPost #Georgia #LocalNews        - -           -          -          The Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast is local news for Lawrenceville, Norcross, Duluth, and all of Gwinnett County. Register Here for your essential digital news.              This podcast was produced and published for the Gwinnett Daily Post and GwinnettDailyPost.com by BG Ad Group    For advertising inquiries, please email j.southerland@bgadgroup.com For more information be sure to visit www.bgpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com The Gwinnett Convention and Visitors Bureau will install more than 100 new safety cameras in hotels and major venues in Gwinnett County.The Flock Safety cameras use cellphone camera technology to read license plates and capture traffic data, according to a news release from Explore Gwinnett, the marketing brand for the Gwinnett CVB.The cameras are expected to increase security and minimize crime, according to Explore Gwinnett.SOURCE: www.AJC.com

Katherine Boyle is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. She recently published an article about "American Dynamism" and how we should approach investing into the future of American infrastructure. In this conversation, we break down this article and discuss the meaning of "American Dynamism", investing in Anderil and Flock Safety, optimism for the future, and why building American-centric technologies is so important. ======================= BlockFi provides financial products for crypto investors. Products include high-yield interest accounts, USD loans, and no fee trading. To start earning today visit: http://www.blockfi.com/Pomp ======================= Choice is a new self-directed IRA product that I'm really excited about. If you are listening to this, you are likely part of the 7.1 million bitcoin owners who have retirement accounts with dollars in them, but not bitcoin. I was in that situation too. Now you can actually buy real Bitcoin in your retirement account. I'm talking about owning your private keys and using tax-advantaged dollars to do it too. Absolute game changer. https://www.retirewithchoice.com/pomp =======================

Today's guest, Joshua Thomas, VP of External Communications at Flock Safety, talks with us about how machine learning can reduce human biases and provide ethical, actionable evidence to police in crimes with cars involved. A fascinating and timely conversation!Join us as we discuss:- Delivering both felt safety and actual safety- How Flock started with a bunch of break-ins- The ins and outs of ethical machine learning- Mitigating bias and serving justice with vehicle data- 4 principles for building products for social justiceCheck out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:- Unwarranted by Barry Friedman- New York University's Policing ProjectMeet us here every other week, and we promise to keep it spicy for you. Find Revenue Innovators onApple Podcasts,Spotify, or our website.Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for Revenue Innovators in your favorite podcast player.

Today's guest, Joshua Thomas, VP of External Communications at Flock Safety, talks with us about how machine learning can reduce human biases and provide ethical, actionable evidence to police in crimes with cars involved. A fascinating and timely conversation! Join us as we discuss: - Delivering both felt safety and actual safety - How Flock started with a bunch of break-ins - The ins and outs of ethical machine learning - Mitigating bias and serving justice with vehicle data - 4 principles for building products for social justice Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast: - Unwarranted by Barry Friedman - New York University's Policing Project Meet us here every other week, and we promise to keep it spicy for you. Find Revenue Innovators onApple Podcasts,Spotify, or our website. Listening on a desktop & can't see the links? Just search for Revenue Innovators in your favorite podcast player.

Today's guest is Paige Todd, VP of People Operations at Flock Safety. We talk about the early days of Flock Safety and cover all things early stage hiring & team empowerment. Paige shares her thoughts for sourcing, evaluating & setting up candidates for success.

As one of Atlanta's newest unicorns, Flock Safety equips neighborhoods and police departments in over 1200 cities with machine learning tools to mitigate crime. Founder and CEO of Flock Safety Garrett Langley openly shares how he navigates growth roadblocks and his mindset for building excellence. You don't want to miss his practical fundraising advice for founders in Atlanta.

In today's episode of the Dear BAMf podcast, Josh Thomas of Flock Safety talks about the benefit of local PR when launching in new markets.

In this episode Jon Birdsong sits down with Garrett Langley, CEO & Founder of Flock Safety.  Garrett and his co-Founder Matt Feury started Flock Safety over three years ago with a mission to eliminate crime. They do this with their leading edge neighborhood license plate reader that provides police evidence to solve crime. Today, they have 65 employees, raised over $40 million dollars, and currently create 65 hot hits per hour for the good guys to take action on. In this episode, we talk about leading through the corona virus crisis, how Flock Safety got into the esteemed Y Combinator program, and of course why and how he's building his scaling business in Atlanta.  The Atlanta Story is put together by the folks at Atlanta Ventures -- and we can't wait to share some of the personalities behind the brand. Atlanta Ventures invests in entrepreneurs through community, content, and capital -- most notably through our Studio with companies like Greenzie and Intown Golf Club. We believe the best entrepreneurs learn from other great artists in different fields.   In this episode, we discuss… What's life like NOW during a Coronavirus world? (2:08) How has Garrett's leadership shifted during this season for Flock Safety. (6:20) Garrett shares the value of the Flock Safety product and customer base. (8:56) Garrett discusses the Flock Safety experience at Y Combinator. (13:17) How did Garrett get customers before he had a product? (14:38) Was authentic demand before YC or after? (16:41) What's the secret to getting into YC? (17:55) What did Demo Day look like at YC? (18:50) Garrett talks about the decision process of choosing investors. (22:36) Life after YC in Atlanta. (24:44) How does Garrett view the transition from small startup to big tech. (27:49) What does growth look like to Flock Safety. (30:48) Fundraising updates about Flock Safety. (33:36)  Did Garrett always know he wanted to start a company? (37:55) Early learnings to prepare for founding companies. (39:50) Key learnings from the early days that Garrett brought to Flock Safety. (42:08) How does Garrett weigh ideas and find customers quickly? (43:50) What's it like being the CEO of a rapidly growing company and father? (46:00) Why Atlanta and what has Atlanta done for you? (47:42)   Resources discussed in this episode: The Founder of Front's thoughts on fundraising Flock Safety's most recent raise    How you can get involved:  Visit atlantaventures.com/studio if you're interested in learning more about Atlanta Ventures and the Studio.    Where you can find us: Website: www.atlstory.com Twitter: @theatlantastory Instagram: @theatlantastory YouTube: Here Subscribe to the newsletter here.

In March, police in an Atlanta suburb embarked on a surveillance experiment they hoped would reduce crime in the area. Along public roads near the local Six Flags amusement park, officers from the Cobb County Police Department installed 13 solar-powered automatic license plate readers from Flock Safety, an Atlanta-based startup on a mission to “eliminate non-violent crime.

Several neighborhoods around San Diego County have turned to an Atlanta company to offer a new level of surveillance. Flock Safety provides private license plate readers that neighborhoods or HOAs can use to track who enters and leaves their neighborhoods. Amid the expansion of the internet of things, and 5G wireless technology, increased surveillance is becoming more common.