April 29, 2025

Oversharing, Privacy, and the Future of Messaging w/ Tessa Brown, CEO of Germ Network

We don’t need more ways to connect — we need better ways to protect what we share.

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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

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