Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Controversy, "Surveillance State" Claims, and Privacy vs Safety
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Flock CEO Garrett Langley on Controversy, "Surveillance State" Claims, and Privacy vs Safety

B1IntermediateAugust 18, 202655 min
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Alright everybody welcome back to the all in interview this is where we find the people building the future sometimes a politician sometimes a ceo sometimes an investor all the time and important discussion and one of the most important discussions of the moment. Is balancing safety and privacy and there is one company that has you know is that the center of this and we're so lucky to have garrett from flocking garrett langley garrett you and i spoke on this weekend startups my other podcast that I've been doing for 16 years. I don't know how many years ago that was six or seven years or seven years. Yeah. And

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I've been following your company. Full disclosure, I was like trying to invest at one point. I'm not a shareholder. But I've always been intrigued by what you're doing on the margin sometimes concerned. And it seems like you've been so

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successful with block, which does safety cameras license plate readers specifically when you get into all the details today. But in the last year, because of the tremendous success of flock, it has been adopted in many communities,

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