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“How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley
Erik TorenbergGarrett LangleyBen Horowitz
Flock is positioned as an intelligence and orchestration layer that integrates license-plate readers, gunshot detection, drones, video, and criminal-history context.Its claimed operating evidence includes about 1 million arrests and more than 450 returned missing children, while Vegas reportedly saw police shootings of suspects fall approximately 75%; staffing shortages, retention rules, and community distrust remain execution risks.
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
Matt ShortalJohn DoyleDavid TuttleGrant Jordan
Veterans are turning firsthand exposure to drone, logistics, and cellular failures into dual-use companies built for low-cost, asymmetric conflict.Their unified products and apprenticeship-derived operating cultures address defense’s procurement bottleneck, where $1 million-$2 million contracts must bridge to $200 million programs; faster experimentation, ruthless exits, and midsize deployments remain the key catalysts.
Drone Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Are Here
Cheap drones can destroy systems costing millions, shifting defense economics toward distributed mass, but battlefield advantage depends on autonomous software that can operate through jamming.Ukraine uses small quadcopters at millions per year versus comparable U.S. programs at single-digit thousands, making procurement scale and rapid software deployment the catalysts to monitor.