This is Bill Kennedy with the Arden Labs podcast, and today our special guest is John Reese, all the way from Michigan.

How you doing, John?

I am doing fantastic.

Yes, I'm in Michigan.

It's cold.

Thank you so much for having me.

Excited to be here.

I'm excited to have you on too because the few times we've talked,

I feel like you've had a really interesting career so far.

And we're going to explore all of that, but and other things, obviously. But

before we go too deep, give everybody your two-minute kind of elevator speech on what you're

doing now and tech who you are, what you're doing. So currently I am a, I'm an engineer at

Ubico. I'm on their enterprise services team.

So little to no work on the actual Ubiqui itself.

The tech that goes into that is way above my pay raise and expertise.

The team that I'm on is focusing more on enabling enterprises to be able to adopt hardware-based authentication for their organization.

Because there are some challenges with that.

I mean, the Yuba key right now and forever is a physical device.

So if you want to mandate that all your employees have to use a Yi for all the other devices you have to buy

one for them you have to ship it to them you have to register the key to their accounts there's a lot of

logistics in that and the second challenge is they're we're all human like we're bound to lose

them um i lose my keys three plus times a day. And when that happens

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