Full Video: Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker at Skift Global Forum 2021
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Clear's previous experience vetting travelers and moving them quickly through airport security put it in an excellent position to take on the challenges of identity, health, and vaccination in the (hopefully) coming post-Covid panic world.
Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker spoke with Skift Senior Travel Tech Editor Sean O'Neill at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme "Technology’s Role in Safely Re-Connecting the Globe."
You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTSc4w9evUSean O'Neill: Hi, Caryn.
Caryn Seidman Becker: Hi. They told me not to swivel.
O'Neill: They told me the same thing.
Seidman Becker: Yeah.
O'Neill: The last time we met, we were mentioning this backstage before we come on, was in a much less glamorous place than the TWA Hotel. It was in Midtown in 2018 in an airless fishbowl conference room. It was about 20 square feet. We were sort of on top of each other. And the idea of an IPO was still a little bit of a distant vision. And Caryn was telling me about why CLEAR Secure, as a membership based biometric identity company, had just tremendous potential as a platform.
I said, "Well, it's hard for me to believe that. It seems more like it's, sort of, like a privatized airport security service. And there's not a lot of a frequent use case, for that. So the potential audience must be very small." And I don't even know if we actually ended up writing a story out of the article.
Seidman Becker: I wowed you. Huh?
O'Neill: Yeah. No, no. So the thing is, this year you've had travel's biggest IPO of the year. What is your market cap about?
Seidman Becker: It's a little over $6 billion.
O'Neill: Okay.
Seidman Becker: About six and a half.
O'Neill: So if that's not six billion fuck you's to all of the white male know-it-all's that you've had to put up with for the past decade. Congratulations on the IPO.
Seidman Becker: That's excellent. Thank you.
O'Neill: So I'd like to talk about Health Pass because everyone who came in here used CLEAR's Health Pass. It helped make our event much more seamless. We've gotten some praise about everything. So how is Health Pass working for you as a product?
Seidman Becker: Health Pass has been an extraordinary product and one that really aligns with our mission of making experiences safer and easier. So I have to say, when you get up out of bed every day and know that you're making the world a better place, it feels really good and it's really important because this is about frictionless exp
