[Podcast EP #5] Social Media Tool Could Catch a School Shooter

It's the technology credited with identifying school threats & giving parents and teachers an early warning to dangers. Bark, a downloadable app & platform uses machine language learning in its algorithm to identify school threats. In this podcast, Titania Jordan, Bark’s Chief Parenting Officer joins me up in the loft to talk about two things. 1)How Bark is the leading social media monitoring technology for schools and parents. 2)What she has learned along the path of being involved in 4 tech startups. While listening to the podcast, we hit the following key points at the times below: 00:20 - What is Bark? 00:41 - Titania Jordan CPO Bark 02:02 - What Bark monitors 08:01 - How Bark detected a school shooting threat 10:00 - How the Bark machine-learning algorithm flags threats 11:27 - How to get your kids to buy in being monitored INNOVATORS - WOMEN IN TECH 13:23 - Meet Titania Jordan the tech exec 14:15 - Women in Tech: Why Meg Whitman went from leading Mattel to eBay 15:00 - What got Titania first interested in tech 16:40 - How the smartest girl in science and math got distracted and then found her way back to focus on tech 17:10 - How to know you have found the right tech business to develop 19:20 - What older white men don’t know about women 20:45 - You’ve identified your business, attracted your team, now how to attract the money 21:10 - The biggest mistake startup leaders make with money 21:41 - What it takes to get from concept to startup stage and attract VCs 23:00 - Where to get free legal and business advice 24:10 - How to pick yourself up after you get knocked down in business 26:20 - How does her current venture Bark define success? 28:03 - What other colleagues and dreamers ask a tech exec the most 29:04 - When to turn off technology and find a balance in life 29:30 - Why she thinks sugar made work harder. Embracing Whole 30 31:38 - Nailing the perfect Elevator Pitch 33:00 - 5 of the craziest slang text terms being used by teens and what you should do when you hear them More here: http://cyberguy.com/safety/social-media-tool-could-catch-a-school-shooter/ Follow me here: www.cyberguy.com www.facebook.com/cyberguyofficial www.twitter.com/cyberguy www.instagram.com/kurtthecyberguy *** ABOUT CYBERGUY - AMERICA'S TECH AUTHORITY Award-winning journalist, author, investor and innovator Kurt has a deep love of technology that makes life better. Best known as “Kurt the CyberGuy,” Kurt Knutsson created the largest syndicated tech lifestyle franchise on television. As a trusted source, Kurt’s unique insider access to major tech launches and industry visionaries has helped earn him two Emmy Awards and a Golden Mic. Kurt lives between home in California and NYC where he is also the chief tech contributor on Fox News & Fox Business networks beginning his mornings on Fox & Friends. Kurt and his CyberGuy reports focus on consumer technology, innovative people and inventions that are rocking the world.