Steve Kirsch in San Jose, CA | University High School - Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

Steve Kirsch

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Serial entrepreneur and philanthropist. I've started companies with a combined market cap of over billion. I started OneID in June , to fix the problems with identity. We raised M from top tier VC funds. Today, identity is primarily based on -year-old "shared secret technology. This has many problems too many passwords, mass password and credit card breaches, etc. OneID has developed technology to solve these problems while at the same time making things more convenient for users. We use a novel trustable architecture based on advanced elliptic curve cryptography. Today, OneID technology reduces friction in e-commerce transactions and secures websites from mass breaches (of passwords and credit cards), and individuals from account takeover. We also can apply this technology to in-store purchases (making another Target breach impossible). Expert on bitcoin. I started Abaca in early because I was getting over , spams a day. Using a new technique I invented, we achieved over . accuracy. It is filtering over million mailboxes today, worldwide, at ISPs. Acquired by ProofPoint in . I'm a big proponent of fast nuclear reactors because of their potential to replace coal plants with a cheaper, zero carbon solution. These reactors use the waste from our existing reactors as fuel. I have helped to rid the world of junk faxes through lawsuits and working with state and federal law enforcement. Married years daughters. My charitable foundation www.kirschfoundation.org In , I was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer, Waldenstrom's Macroglobulenemia. Fortunately, the cancer is slow moving. The experimental drug I'm on has been effective in stabilizing the disease. The Kirsch Auditorium at MIT is named in my honor... although to be perfectly honest, a M donation to MIT helped ) Specialties user centric identity, bitcoin, startup companies, spam, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia read more ...