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Bob Griffin

Bob Griffin

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Aug 4, 2026

2:11
You know, why you ended up joining CERN.
2:13
Let me, let me, uh, let me back up a little bit.
2:15
As you mentioned, I was one of the founders of a, of a company called CopLink.
2:19
We developed technology that really allowed law enforcement, state, local, federal, and so forth, to share informations from a tactical perspective.
2:30
The goal was to facilitate arrests as quickly as possible.
2:33
And what we also provided as part of the information sharing initiative was a set of very high quality, very in-depth analytic tools, right? Here's how you mine that data to find bad guys, right? We were involved in some incredibly high-profile events like the Montgomery County sniper shooting, for example.
2:51
At the time I was running CopLink, we were approached by a large private equity firm, Silver Lake, and they said, "We really like what you guys are doing, and, you know, we would like to talk about potentially acquiring the company." So it was during due diligence and negotiations that they came to me and said, "Look, we just recently acquired this company out of the UK called I2.

7 MINS LATER

9:48
Yeah.

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