Reed McGinley-Stempel
- Co-founded Stytch in 2020 with Julianna Lamb, both from Plaid
- Built a developer identity platform around passwordless as the default, not an add-on
Bio
Reed McGinley-Stempel co-founded Stytch in 2020 with Julianna Lamb, its CTO. The two met at Plaid working on bank-account authentication, where they saw how much engineering time went into authentication flows that were never the product. Stytch launched with email magic links and grew into a full B2C and B2B identity platform.
Profile built from public company and press records.
Where their work shows up
Most identity platforms added passwordless to a password-first product. Stytch started from the other end, which changes the defaults: passkeys, magic links, and device fingerprinting as the primary path, with fraud and bot detection treated as part of authentication rather than a separate purchase. See the Stytch profile, the best passwordless CIAM providers ranking, and Auth0 vs Stytch.
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