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Join me for an insightful conversation with Tom Siegel, former VP of Trust & Safety at Google and now Co-Founder and CEO of Trust Lab. Tom shares how he built Google's trust and safety division from a one-person team to a 1,000+ employee operation, and why he left to launch his own startup tackling online safety challenges.

Discover Tom's unique insights on:
Building effective safety systems for platforms with billions of users
Leadership principles that scale from small teams to large organizations
Finding the right co-founders and investors for your startup
The challenges of achieving product-market fit in a specialized industry
Creating work-life balance while building a mission-driven company

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Highlight and Introduction
02:05 - Early career and Joining Google pre-IPO and early work on search quality
03:47 - Early days combating search manipulation
04:47 - Attracting bad actors on high-traffic platforms
05:44 - Personal motivations for improving safety
06:09 - Brand safety issues
07:09 - Personal motivations for working in safety
07:40 - Technical solutions, policy importance, and bad actors
08:50 - Memorable experiences with YouTube and terrorism content
10:29 - Challenges in building Google's Trust and Safety
10:50 - Scale, policy, and imperfection challenges
11:29 - Trust and Safety team growth at Google
12:31 - Leadership philosophy for large organizations
15:08 - Differences between large and small companies
17:12 - Reasons for leaving Google after 14 years
19:12 - Founding Trust Lab and its mission
20:23 - Meeting co-founders and starting the company
21:30 - Decision-making frameworks for founders
23:35 - Building a support network as a founder
26:40 - Trust Lab's products and services
27:51 - Trust Lab's customer types
29:57 - Finding ideal customer profiles (ICP)
31:25 - Key aspects of product-market fit search
33:35 - Competitive advantages and moats
36:02 - Strategy for acquiring high-quality labeled data
37:35 - Measuring product-market fit
40:44 - Balancing multiple initiatives vs. focus
43:40 - Fundraising and investor relationships
45:10 - Managing investor relationships
47:00 - Work-life balance as a founder

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