@AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works
Post #47697
2025-12-10 03:26 UTC
The history of the organization seems very odd
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety
It began as a side project in which the three co-founders built their first video surveillance cameras by hand around Langley’s dining room table. When a DeKalb County detective told Langley that his camera product had helped with solving a home break-in, Langley called the two other co-founders and told them to quit their jobs.
What?? How did a detective use it to solve a crime? Who was he? And based off of this one dude you all 3 just quit your jobs??? What??
Then we just jump ahead to 2022 and these cameras that didn’t even work had raised over $380 million in venture funding?
Then by the next year they were being used to sub for actual police due to a shortage of police officers?
Replies (2)
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@VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2025-12-10 14:42
Truly fucked up !
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@pornpornporn@lemmynsfw.com 2025-12-10 20:39
It began as a side project in which the three co-founders built their first video surveillance cameras by hand around Langley’s dining room table. When a DeKalb County detective told Langley that his camera product had helped with solving a home break-in, Langley called the two other co-founders and told them to quit their jobs. That reads exactly like those made up masturbatory LinkedIn anecdotes. I guarantee that this “Langley” guy is the one that edited the page to put it there.