Founders worked as unpaid crime analysts inside a police department
Ben Rudolph · Worked out of a police department unpaid for a year—built a $6.8B company | Peregrine · PMF Show · Jul 27, 2026 · at 13:51
Ben Rudolph, co-founder and CEO of Peregrine, describes how the public safety software company began its early product discovery by embedding inside their first partner police department.
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“Yeah, he gave us a room in the department, and anytime there was a case, they would essentially treat us as crime analysts, and they'd be like, hey, we got a new homicide in, here's what we know about the case, can you help us with it? And we would be like, sure, and then so we would sit there all day, poring over these files, trying to figure out what happened, pinpoint a phone number.”
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