Jim Clark

Chairman and Co-Founder, Beyond Identity

Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He has founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, Healtheon, Applied DNA Sciences, CommandScape, and Beyond Identity. Jim earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in physics from The University of New Orleans, and a PhD in computer science from The University of Utah.

The Journey to and then Beyond Passwordless Authentication

Jim Clark

4/14/2020

The Origin of Beyond Identity: Why it took 25 years to adapt asymmetric cryptography to address the password problem.

Sorry About All the Passwords

Jim Clark

4/14/2020

My name is Jim Clark; you might remember me as the co-founder of Netscape. It was also the platform through which much of the world created their first password. Seemed like a good idea at the time.