The Future of Identity

Apr 25 2024 3
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The Future of Identity podcast talks to the people building the IDtech products of tomorrow. In each episode, Trinsic CEO Riley Hughes dives deep with founders and product builders to discuss their insights about what it takes to successfully launch an identity product. We hope you join us as we highlight the people at the forefront of making IDtech consumable for every day users and what is needed to reach mass adoption.As a leader in the self-sovereign identity movement, Trinsic has seen hundreds of companies attempt to use decentralized identity to build products that help people take control of their identity and data. Learn more about Trinsic at https://trinsic.id/.

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Adrian Field - OneID’s Approach to Driving BankID Adoption in the UK

Apr 25 2024 46 mins  
In this episode we talk with Adrian Field, the Director of Market Development at OneID, which is a bank-based identity verification product focused on the UK market.We cover a range of topics, including:How they apply a revenue-share model to incentivize banks to participate in their ecosystemThe main use cases they’re focusing on in their go-to-market and the drivers that qualif

Taylor Liggett - ID.me’s Strategy for Adoption, Monetization, and Brand for 100 Million Wallets and Beyond

Apr 03 2024 29 mins  
In today’s episode we spoke with Taylor Liggett, Chief Growth Officer of ID.me, which is the largest reusable ID network in the United States and may be the largest private digital ID network in the world. With over 100 million user wallets and $150 million in revenue, ID.me has figured some things out about reusable ID adoption and monetization.We talk about how reusable identit

Eric Scouten - Adobe’s Leading Role in the Content Authenticity Boom

Mar 20 2024 36 mins  
On today’s episode we talked with Eric Scouten, Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe, who has been working for the last four years on solving content authenticity. What does that mean? We’ll get into it in the episode, but suffice it to say that it’s an effort to bring trust to content online.Was the pope really photographed in that puffy jacket? Was the photo of a war zone re

Adam Gunther - Tactical Insights from Equifax and IBM on Driving Reusable Identity Adoption

Mar 06 2024 30 mins  
On today’s episode we spoke to Adam Gunther, SVP and General Manager of Digital Solutions at Equifax. This was a fascinating conversation about Adam’s journey leading decentralized identity at IBM, moving into an operating role within Equifax, and how their reusable identity strategy has evolved over time.We talk about tactical factors that are needed for reusable identity adop

Phil Windley - Identity Metasystems and Lessons from Building the Sovrin Foundation

Feb 21 2024 35 mins  
In this episode we talk with Phil Windley, Sr. Software Development Manager at AWS, Cofounder of IIW, former Chair of Sovrin Foundation. We talked about his experience building and leading the Sovrin Foundation, which at one point was almost synonymous with the term self-sovereign identity. It was set up to be an identity metasystem that would reinvent how identity was done online�

Nick Thomas: Finicity’s Journey from Personal Finance App to $985M Acquisition for their Open Banking Platform

Feb 07 2024 38 mins  
Today we talked with Nick Thomas, cofounder of Finicity, which was acquired by Mastercard, where Nick went on to be the EVP of Global Open Finance Innovation. Nick has a fascinating career that has paralleled digital identity for a long time, as a cofounder of Bluetooth and FDX, the major open banking standards body in the US. These are both organizations that brought an industry t

Jacques von Benecke: Launching National-Scale Self Sovereign Identity in Bhutan

Jan 24 2024 52 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Jacques von Benecke, CTO of DHI, the commercial and investment arm of the government of Bhutan. If you haven’t heard, Bhutan has launched one of the most complete SSI ecosystems in the world! We spent most of the time diving in to how it’s going since launching just a few months ago.We get into metrics, like how many users have onboarded, and the g

Jon Gelsey: Identity Product GTM Insight from Auth0’s Early Days

Jan 10 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Jon Gelsey, founding CEO of Auth0 Inc, which sold to Okta for $6.5B, as well as the CEO of Xnor.ai which he sold to Apple for $200m.Jon told the story of the early days of Auth0, including how they got their first $1m of revenue. Then we spent time diving in to how new technologies get adopted—Jon even went as far as saying that technology adoption i

Harrison Tang: Spokeo’s Vision of a “People Search Engine” Powered by Verifiable Credentials

Nov 15 2023 34 mins  
In this episode, we sit down with Harrison Tang, Co-founder and & CEO of Spokeo, which is a “people search engine”. Spokeo aggregates many sources of data about people and sells that data to verifiers. So at first blush, Harrison is an unlikely person to be a massive advocate for SSI and co-chair of the W3C Credentials Community Group.We dig in to why Spokeo cares about ver

Carlos Korten: Lessons Learned From Bindle’s Health Pass

Oct 25 2023 46 mins  
In this episode, we chat with Carlos Korten, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer of Bindle Systems. Bindle built one of the largest private-sector deployments of decentralized identity in the USA, and Carlos shares tons of stories from the trenches of getting hundreds of thousands of consumers on board.We dive in to the go-to-market strategies Bindle employed, including how they