S10 Favorite: From Plaid to a $1B Unicorn: Killing the Password with Reed McGinley-Stempel of Stytch

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Dec 24, 2024 · 28m

Reed McGinley-Stempel grew up in Las Vegas, but went to school on the East Coast. Frankly, he didn't know what he wanted to do and "stumbled" into management consulting. When I dug into how someone stumbles into this profession, he mentioned that early on he got some sage advice from his older brother about not rushing to law school because... being a lawyer isn't that fun. So, he followed some friends to Bain & Company.

The more projects he was involved in, the more he got interested in technology. Candidly, one of his motivations for going in tech was the fact that his was moving…