In a late Friday night blow to Uber, Lyft and other gig worker-centered companies, a superior…
Author: Danny Crichton
Paladin publicly launches Knighthawk, a first response drone for cities
Emergency response is a time-sensitive business. When fires burn or a driver crashes their car, seconds…
FloodMapp wants to predict where water goes before it washes away your home
Floods are devastating. They rip asunder communities, wipe out neighborhoods, force the evacuation of thousands of…
Following the IPCC’s report, we need more technology to respond to more disasters
This week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its major sixth assessment report on the…
The RapidSOS EC-1
Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911,…
Smoking pizza ovens and pilfered dollar bills, or the early story of RapidSOS
RapidSOS' story is one of a mission, a community, a team and a dream that every…
RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design
For the founders of RapidSOS, improving the quality of emergency response by adding useful data, like…
How RapidSOS used creative tactics to build partnerships and a BD engine at scale
One of the most challenging aspects of leading a startup is the seeming impossibility of building…
After a decade, Congress might finally bring 911 into the internet age
When it comes to user-interface design, 911 is about as good as it gets. It’s the…