Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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Hello and welcome, everyone.

I'm Patrick O'Shaughnessy, and this is Invest Like the Best.

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My guest today is Karen Seidman Becker.

Karen is the chairman and CEO of Clear.

She bought the company personally out of bankruptcy for $6 million in 2010 and has built it into the identity platform millions use in airports and stadiums today.

Her Wall Street background, investing in Apple, Amazon, and Priceline, taught her to recognize when products become platforms, which shaped her vision for Clear as the definitive security identity platform, far beyond travel.

Karen shares the gritty early days of literally hunting down hardware and airport storage facilities and rebuilding the entire business from scratch.

She embodies an incredible bias for action.

We discuss turning around the business, scaling a platform, and why she believes your face will soon be your key to everything.

Please enjoy this incredible conversation with Karen Seidman Becker.

So, Karen, I think a great place to begin is to just talk a little bit about Clear first.

We're going to rewind the clock in a few minutes and go back to the beginning and tell your entire story.

Everyone knows Clear because they've experienced it in the airport or at a stadium or something else.

So they know that version of it.