Hacker Noon December 2, 2021
Ishan Pandey

Ishan Pandey: Hi Chris Were, welcome to our series “Behind the Startup.” Please tell us about yourself and the story behind Verida?

Chris Were: I’m the CEO and co-founder of Verida. This journey started two years ago as I started diving deeper into blockchain technology. I had a significant interest in enabling people to own their own data and blockchain technology. Blockchain seemed like a great tool to make that a reality.

I started researching the existing technology solutions and realized that there was a significant missing piece around managing private data for end-users. Through that process, I started developing some early proof of concepts on how to solve that problem.

Over the last two years, those proof of...

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