News Summary

• Thomas Lee Young is the CEO of Interface, a San Francisco startup using AI to prevent industrial accidents.
• Young was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, the site of substantial oil and gas exploration activity.
• His entire family worked as engineers, stretching back generations to his great-grandfather, who immigrated to the island nation from China.
• Young says the tools many companies use to manage safety documentation are either nonexistent –pen and paper – or so siloed and poorly designed that workers hate them.