The Future of Identity

Riley Hughes•trinsic.id

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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Evin McMullen: Verifiable Credentials in the Metaverse

Today’s guest is Evin McMullen, co-founder and CEO of Disco.xyz. We start and end this episode with Evin framing identity as the coolest, most interesting thing people should be working on. She paints such a compelling picture in language that’s so accessible, and she shares tips on how the rest of us can level up our messaging to attract more users as well. We break down Disco’s product and the origin of their term of choice—the “data backpack”. We go into some of the choices they made in their...

Apr 13, 2023•44 min•Ep. 7

Paul Ashley: Will Consumers Pay for an Identity Product?

Today’s guest is Paul Ashley, CTO and co-CEO of Anonyome Labs. Paul starts by talking about how the erosion of privacy online and the rise of data brokers and surveillance capitalism led them to create their IDtech product MySudo. MySudo is a privacy application that allows users to create secure digital profiles, or personas, with unique disposable phone numbers, emails, credit cards, and other identifiers to use across the internet. With hundreds of thousands of users, MySudo has defied conven...

Mar 28, 2023•51 min•Ep. 6

Sebastian Mellen: The Power of Verified Data in Non-Obvious Industries

Today’s guest is Sebastian Mellen, Co-founder and CEO of Cerebrum. His team is building an IDtech product called vID, tackling data and compliance problems in healthcare, HR systems, and even youth sports teams. In this conversation, we cut right to some meaty topics, including some of the biggest challenges that IDtech products tend to face. Sebastian gives insight into Cerebrum’s trojan horse go-to-market strategy into large corporates, how they’ve translated self-sovereign identity language i...

Mar 14, 2023•44 min•Ep. 5

Chris Ingrao: Bringing Decentralized Identity to Healthcare

Today’s guest is Chris Ingrao, a co-founder of Lumedic—a company whose mission it was to transform the patient experience in the US healthcare market. Lumedic launched an IDtech product in production and was on the brink of several incredible adoption breakthroughs, but through internal reorganization, its potential unfortunately was not realized. In this episode, Chris takes us on a journey from Lumedic’s founding, to acquisition, to innovating inside a massive health system where they truly ha...

Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 4

Katrie Lowe: Stop Selling SSI, Sell Answers to Problems

Today’s guest is Katrie Lowe, Co-founder and CEO of Domi Labs. We start the conversation talking about how Berlin’s hyper-competitive rental market led Katrie to build a digital rental passport to streamline the experience for property managers and tenants to exchange information in a rental process. We go on to talk about Domi’s product experience, including the clever ways their product implements verifiable credentials to crack what she calls the “SSI trust triangle.” Katrie then breaks down ...

Feb 14, 2023•36 min•Ep. 3

Jeffrey Schwartz: Build More, Talk Less — Solving Real Problems with Verifiable Credentials

Today’s guest is Jeffrey Schwartz, Founder & CEO of Dentity whose mission is to make the internet a safer place for people everywhere. Jeffrey’s background in the automotive industry (of all places) opened his eyes to the need for better digital identity. He co-founded Dentity to solve the trust problem in peer-to-peer transactions and discusses the surprising breadth of use cases they’re already tackling, from frat parties to notaries. Jeffrey then drops loads of knowledge about what he’s l...

Feb 13, 2023•42 min•Ep. 2

Introducing: The Future of Identity

Welcome to The Future of Identity . Normally, show host Riley Hughes (Co-founder & CEO of Trinsic) talks to the people building IDtech products, but the purpose of this solo episode is to introduce the purpose of the podcast. In this short episode, Riley covers: The future of identity and why it is better How great products will get us there Why now is the right time—IDtech is the new Fintech Why the identity space needs a term like “IDtech” What to expect from The Future of Identity podcast...

Feb 11, 2023•8 min•Ep. 1

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