Flock Safety
also referred to as: flock
44 statements across 1 episodes · 16 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 5, 2026 by Garrett Langley · said 55 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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brought up most by Garrett Langley (28), John Collison (27)
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2026 55 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Flock Safety, oldest first
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Langley: Physical surveillance faces unfairly higher privacy standards than digital tracking
“Because we operate in the physical world, we are held to a higher standard, which I think is a shame because personal opinion, what I do online is way more interesting and telling about my personality and my life than what I do in the real world.”
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Langley: Flock lobbies for legislation enforcing civil liberty guardrails on surveillance
“We have a really good government affairs team that is lobbying for that kind of legislation to say, like, there's a way for us to both be safe and maintain civil liberties, and it needs to be legislated, though.”
Mar 5, 2026 bullish
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Langley: Law enforcement customers do not regularly audit surveillance usage without mandates
“Not enough of our customers audit themselves on a regular basis. We can build software to make that easier, but we need to be pushed to do that. It was like, customers don't want it. They need to be told to do it.”
Mar 5, 2026 bullish
Mar 5, 2026
Langley: Hardware companies fail primarily due to poor 12-to-18-month demand forecasting
“The first would be, I don't know how you guys think about forecasting demand. It's a full-time profession at Flock. And it typically needs to be 12 to 18 months out. And if you look at the, like, hardware companies that don't make it, that's actually where the…”
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Langley: Flock stores live video for seven days and LPR data for 30 days
“There's a, there's data retention where we protect, you know, how long something is stored. So for live video, it's typically seven days. For LPR data, it's typically 30 days. You can go longer or shorter if a democratically elected body votes on it.”
Mar 5, 2026 negative
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…”
Mar 5, 2026 neutral
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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…”
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Mar 5, 2026 neutral
Langley: Flock's 'Safe City' package costs around $20 per citizen yearly
“We have this new concept that we've developed called, like, safe city, and we'll go into a town and say, look, this is the platform you need to solve all the crime in your city. It's your choice. It tends to be like, what, 20 bucks a citizen a year?”
Mar 5, 2026 positive
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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.”
Mar 5, 2026
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Langley: Government RFPs are almost always tailored to a single vendor
“Everything goes to RFP, but the RFP is written for one vendor, so all it does is wind up taking an extra year, six months. That's like, that's, I get why RFPs exist, but they're not actually RFPs. I've never seen an RFP that's not written for one vendor. I'm s…”
Mar 5, 2026 negative
Langley: Traditional home security alerts crimes but fails to solve them
“They do two things that actually are not helpful. They tell you a crime has happened. They don't actually help you solve it. And then what about your neighbor? And so what we'd realize is that every single security system was focused on the individual.”
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Langley: There are 400,000 legally organized neighborhood organizations in the US
“There's 400,000 neighborhoods in America, and there's no consolidation of, Providing safety for those communities. And when I say neighborhood, that is a, you know, legally binding organization that can sign a contract.”
Mar 5, 2026 bullish
Mar 5, 2026 negative
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.”
Mar 5, 2026 bullish