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'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that.
According to its marketing, every guard is either “active duty or retired law enforcement and military.” Every booking comes with a motorcade and users get to select the number of Escalades that’ll be joining them as well as the uniforms their hired goons will wear. The whole thing is the brainchild of founder Nick Sarath, who worked as a product designer at Meta for a year before founding his own company in 2020. Two days after Thompson was gunned down on the streets of Manhattan, Sarath put out a press release that promised to rush Protector to market.
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