Aidan McCarty: The Signup Form Is Dying. Here's What Replaces It. | Ep 1312

The Digital Executive · Sep 2, 2026 · 19m

In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Aidan McCarty, co-founder and co-CEO of Verified, to make the case that the way we prove who we are on the internet is about to look as dated as the fax machine — and that a phone number is the identity primitive that survives what comes next. Aidan opens with the Stripe analogy at the heart of Verified's thesis: Stripe didn't make payments better, it made payments disappear, and that is exactly what Verified is doing for signup. Where a typical fintech onboarding flow takes 161 seconds, 16 clicks, and loses…