E227: Focus on Your Mission with William Santana Li

<p>How much are you willing to invest to ensure the security of your community?</p> <p>Every year, crime has a $2 trillion negative economic impact on the U.S. economy. And if you added up all the cops, jails, the handcuffs, all the hospitals, and all the blood, sweat and tears – there seems to be this enormous hidden tax that society tries to ignore.</p> <p>Today’s guest, William Santana Li, has an ambitious goal to cut that in half. William is the Chairman and CEO of Knightscope, an American security camera and robotics company with operations across the country.</p> <p>In this episode, Erik Cabral talks with William about how technology has the power to improve the security in the country. Through Knightscope’s autonomous security robots (ASRs), different institutions and establishments can cover a lot more ground, working hand in hand with law enforcement officers to make this nation a safer and better place.</p> <p><strong>Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The impact of crime on the economy</li> <li>The role of technology in the security industry</li> <li>Why 95% of startups fail</li> <li>Knightscope’s available products</li> <li>The different tools and features of ASRs</li> <li>Opportunities for scaling</li> </ul> <p><strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p> <p><strong>The Role of Technology</strong></p> <p>Our country is over 200 years old and the first role of the government is to protect its citizens. Yet somehow, we allow this kind of nightmare to happen every single day in almost every single community. The founders of our country would never have expected us to build a society where we’re going to school, to work, or to a movie theater that literally came with the risk of being shot or killed.</p> <p>Knightscope is building a unique set of technologies – a combination of four impactful things over the next decade around self-driving autonomous technology – self-driving, robotics, artificial intelligence, and electric vehicles. If you can combine al