# 🎧 The Philosophy of Identity, a conversation with Footprint Co-Founder Eli Wachs

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Podcast: [This Week in Fintech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-fintech-6007929)
Published: 2025-08-12T21:53:19+00:00
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This week, I sat down with Eli Wachs, the Co-Founder and CEO of Footprint, a company building the identity infrastructure of the internet. It was a far-reaching conversation – Eli's an interesting guy – and we touched on everything from his deep-dives into identity in the Stanford library to working with economist Raj Chetty to philosophy and what it means to be authentic to yourself. Footprint provides automated onboarding that solves identity, security, fraud, and auth in 5 lines of code, b...

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