About SafetyWeb
What is SafetyWeb?
SafetyWeb is a groundbreaking new service designed to help parents keep their children safe online. While the Internet is constantly changing, your responsibility as parents is not. You would never let your kids go out without knowing where they were going and with whom. The Internet should not be any different. The only problem is that with all of the new technologies and web sites out there this world is a different place from the one we grew up in. As parents, it is not sufficient to to simply know who your kids are hanging out with in school. Kids can assume a variety of different identities, and so too can the people they interact with. Keeping up with the landscape of social networks and how your kids interact in them has been nearly impossible for many parents. Until now!
How does SafetyWeb help?
SafetyWeb provides you with the tools you need to stay on top of the “social web” and empowers parents to engage their children about how to interact online safely. We keep parents informed of all the various networks out there and let parents know when we find anything that might warrant further exploration. While nothing can replace the responsibility a parent has to communicate with their child, SafetyWeb can help by making sure that you are in the know about the world they live in. Together, we can help keep kids safe.
Who is SafetyWeb?
SafetyWeb is the first service created by the very people who have created some of the biggest online services out there! Our founders have not only worked on web sites that combined service over 200 million registered users, but they have also assisted in the arrest and prosecution of sex offenders! Even if you are not concerned about online predators, bear in mind that everything that your child does online leaves a trail, a trail that universities and employers are likely to stumble upon. SafetyWeb counts amongst its founders an Ivy League graduate who conducts admission interviews for his alma mater. Conducting a Google search is one of many first steps partaken when he gets a new interview request from the school or is looking to hire a new employee.
Geoffrey Arone
Co-Founder
Geoffrey is a smart, aggressive, scrappy, repeat entrepreneur with a solid reputation in the Valley. He has 12 years of successful product development. Prior to SafetyWeb, Geoffrey co-founded A Large Corporation, LLC with MC Hammer with the primary web property DanceJam. He raised 2 rounds of venture funds and sold the company to SportsNet in 2009. Geoffrey was also a founder of the social web browser Flock where he successfully built an organization from 2 employees to >30. He developed a product which has had over 8 million installs to date. Geoffrey has also held Product positions at Real Networks and Oracle and founded DAG.com.
Geoffrey holds a Bachelors of Science in Neural Science from Brown University and an MBA in New Product and Venture Development from Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management. He also holds 2 patents in structured data during his tenure at DAG.com.
Michael Clark
Co-Founder
Michael is one of only a handful of people in the world who has scaled a web service to over 100 million users. He has built infrastructure to support some of the biggest sites on the web including Photobucket and TinyPic. Prior to SafetyWeb, Michael was the first executive hire and architect at Photobucket and the platforms he scaled now accommodate > 100 million registered users with 8 billion images. He built the development, operations, and customer support teams to keep up with the growth and helped lead Photobucket to a $300 million exit to NewsCorporation. Michael has also served as a senior solution engineer at NetApp, led the development of a solid state storage product for TiGi, built a telecom engineering organization at TouchAmerica, and helped build Citrix’s consulting services organization. He has over 15 years of direct experience building scalable systems.
Michael holds a Bachelors of Arts in Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Human Communication from the University of Denver.
What's SafetyWeb?
SafetyWeb help parents guard their children's reputation, privacy & safety online by monitoring:
- Your child's public activity online.
- What is being said about your child.
- What photos/videos your child shares.
- What kind of "friends" your child has.