The Passport of the Internet

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[00:02:18] - [First question] - The history of people using passwords online

[00:05:34] - How the password structure we use today came to be

[00:08:22] - How attack vectors open up and what hackers do to get your information

[00:11:49] - His time at Plaid and how it led to him co-founding Stytch

[00:15:20] - What it means to be passwordless for the company and the N users

[00:18:17] - How they decided where to put their focus when starting Stytch

[00:21:24] - What companies did before Stytch to handle different levels of security

[00:22:19] - What the authentication of logging in with Google, Apple or email is

[00:25:11] - Their ethos on building for developers and being an API first company

[00:28:30] - The pros and cons of being an API company and an SDK company 

[00:31:45] - His first exposure to the Web3 space and how Stytch plays a role in it

[00:36:31] - His thoughts on Web2 and if they will adopt the security measures of Web3

[00:40:14] - How Stytch will make it easier to attend something based on token gated access

[00:42:52] - What a passport of the internet is and what Stytch is doing with it

[00:47:17] - Their onboarding process for users from the Web2 space

[00:54:00] - What he’s most excited to see built over the next six months and the next six years