Anchor Change with Katie Harbath
Impossible Tradeoffs with Katie Harbath
Lessons in building a safe platform from scratch
0:00
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -41:29
-41:29

Lessons in building a safe platform from scratch

Human-rights and tech expert Sarah Oh talks about taking a human-rights, safety first approach in building Pebble as well as some of the tough tradeoffs she faced at Meta and Twitter

It’s our last podcast of the year! Thank you all for joining my journey in starting this podcast. As a reminder, I’ll take some time off before restarting episodes in 2024. Don't forget to fill out this short form if you have ideas for what you’d like to see.

This week’s fun trade-off is:

Loading...

For our last guest of 2023, I’m welcoming Sarah Oh to the podcast.

Sarah is a human rights expert and tech executive who has worked at Meta, Twitter, and, most recently, Pebble. Pebble worked a lot like Twitter, but one thing Sarah and the other co-founders were adamant about was building the platform with a human-rights and safety-first approach. While Pebble did shut down a few weeks ago (the success of Threads really hurt their ability to grow and get funding), there are a lot of lessons to be learned from their experiences. Sarah’s co-founder, Gabor Cselle, covered some of his lessons learned in this Medium post, and Sarah talks about what she learned in the podcast.

Enjoy!

Discussion about this podcast

Anchor Change with Katie Harbath
Impossible Tradeoffs with Katie Harbath
Technology and democracy are at a crossroads. Technology can potentially empower people and make our democracies more responsive. Or technology can be used to manipulate and divide us. Welcome to Impossible Tradeoffs. I’m Katie Harbath. In this weekly podcast, we’ll talk about and analyze the most fascinating headlines. We’ll make predictions about where things are going. And we’ll talk to experts about the challenges we face and how we might look for solutions.