Identity Verification
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
In Depth 
A Product Market Fit Show 
the a16z Podcast
3 statements about Identity Verification, every show
Song: Online identity verification friction has increased over the past five years
“Even from the start of persona over the past five years, the amount of friction, the amount of effort to do that has not only has not decreased. It's actually only increased. Like we're watching the complication of how to be ourselves online get progressively …”
Song: Persona learns more from cybersecurity than identity verification peers
“A lot of our learnings these days is not from like, you know, just like identity verification companies from cybersecurity, like cybersecurity has a long, long history of threat detection. And like, it's fundamentally in this bad actor kind of, you know, detec…”
Wilcox: Zero-knowledge proofs solve privacy flaws in traditional identity verification
“Every time we want to prove our identity, we do it by disclosing potentially sensitive information that could be abused. This is not a safe or scalable way to do it, and zero knowledge proofs might provide a replacement where instead of divulging information, …”