Garrett Langley
Founder & CEO, Flock Safety. On 3 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Garrett Langley is the co-founder and CEO of Flock Safety, an automated license plate recognition and surveillance technology company. Before founding Flock Safety in 2017, he co-founded the fan experience app Experience and the vehicle subscription platform Clutch.
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Langley: Flock lost a Mexican deal to Hikvision after pricing 10x higher
“So we pursued one really big deal last year in Mexico. We had support from one of our investors, like we should go after cigar and great. And they had connections to the Mexican government. And so we got all the way to the finish line, and it was us versus Hik…”
Langley: Unsolved crimes mean there were not enough cameras deployed
“For every crime that occurs that doesn't get solved means we didn't have enough cameras.”
Langley: The Whole Concept of Prison Will Never Work
“And the whole concept of prison will never work.
Like, and there are some incredibly well-run prisons with really well-intentioned wardens doing the best of their ability, but the concept of putting a bunch of violent people together is, like, by default flawe…”
Langley: Public privacy complaints are a proxy for distrust in police
“You know, they call it privacy, but that's just a cover for, I don't trust the police to do their job effectively.”
Langley: Higher clearance rates are the sole correlation with lower crime
“The only correlation between a drop in crime is an increase in clearance rate.”
Langley: Flock solved 1M crimes and found 10K missing people last year
“And if you look at like last year, to your point, we've had a tremendous impact on the country north of a million crimes solved using Flock, north of 10,000 people found who were missing.”
Langley: 90% of crimes are solved within seven days of data retention
“We think 90% of crimes will get solved within seven days of data retention.”
Langley: Flock avoids facial recognition and video capture unlike competitors
“We don't do facial recognition. We don't capture video. We don't look inside the car. We don't even allow in our system to search for people for our licensing cameras. And that's in direct conflict with some of our biggest competitors who do all of the things …”
Langley: Nine Georgia police officers fired for abusing Flock system
“They're publicly saying, I fired nine officers today, which is the most severe offense in Georgia for abusing the system. They're out of my police department. I don't want them.”
Langley: Flock Safety will never build AI that defines suspicion
“Yeah, that I don't want to do. Like, I think we've been really consistent that we never want to be a company that defines suspicion. That's really dangerous.”
Langley: Reckless competitors lack audit tools and it will catch up
“And our competitors to your point, yes, they run more reckless. They run without these tools, without the scrutiny. And I think it's gonna catch up to them. It will catch up to them eventually.”
Langley: Zero federal regulation exists for police drone deployments outside air safety
“There's very little state regulation. There's zero federal regulation outside of air safety, which is important, but nothing yet.”
Langley: Flock Safety cleared over one million US crimes last year
“So we're, last year, we helped clear just north of a million crimes in America.”
Langley: Cartels fly night-vision drones to case Virginia homes
“In one of the counties we work with, it's an affluent-ish county in the Virginia area South American cartels fly illegal drones through these neighborhoods. They'll flip on night vision, look through houses to see if anyone's home, then go break in.”
Flock Safety avoids facial recognition due to controversy
“We don't do facial recognition for that reason, because it's too controversial, but that's, it's counterintuitive to me when the technology gets better every day.”
Langley: Body cameras exonerate officers in majority of foul play cases
“In the majority of cases that I see, where foul play is called, it is almost always the inverse. Where a law enforcement officer was just trying to do their job, and on the other side, there was other mental health issue, there was something gone wrong, and it…”
Langley: Cobb County solves 100% of violent crimes
“Cobb County would be one which is like the second largest county... If you commit violence in Cobb County, you will get arrested.”
Langley: VC-backed public safety tech startups will fail or be consolidated
“I see a new VC backed company every day, and I'm like, there's just a, all these things are going out of business, so there's just going to be consolidation.”
Flock Built AI Agent to Flag Vehicles Following Armored Cars
“So we built an agent that tracks armored cars. And so, at all times, it is literally saying, okay, here's our truck. If we ever see other vehicles tracking this car, flag them automatically.”
Langley: Majority of 911 calls do not require a human officer response
“Majority of the calls actually never need a human to show up.”
Langley: Unlike software, every major decision in hardware is an irreversible one-way door
“Every decision you make in hardware is millions of dollars at a minimal, and often tens of millions of dollars. And so when you grow up in this Silicon Valley mindset of, like, everything's a two-way door. Bullshit. Hardware, everything's a one-way door.”
Langley: Flock Safety's drone camera can read license plates nearly a mile away
“Like, we can zoom, we can read a license plate almost a mile away. Like, crazy specs. Great thermal.”
Langley: Legal privacy precedents collapse when surveillance tech becomes cheap
“The other analogy that would be the butterfly effect, which is like when things are much, much cheaper and much, much easier, a historical precedent gets thrown away.”
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 CHEEKY PINTLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Flock Safety | 1 | 60 | 29% 4/14 | full record on Cheeky Pint → |
 ALL-INLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Flock Safety | 1 | 24 | 56% 5/9 | full record on All-In → |
| a16zLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Flock Safety | 2 | 23 | 11% 1/9 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |