Tessa Brown, Co-Founder and CEO of Germ Network, joins the show to talk about, 

- Tessa's journey from Stanford writing professor to startup founder, the dangers of social platforms designed to maximize exposure, and why privacy should be the default, not the exception.

- How Germ lets users create multiple, compartmentalized identities

- The flaws of phone number–based messaging and the case for link-based connection, and her philosophy on building with integrity in a surveillance-based tech world

- Tessa’s experience fundraising from K5 Global and Mozilla Ventures