Catalyst by Camber Creek · 2026-07-01 · 46 min
If you've ever notarized a document online instead of having to get in your car to drive to a notary public, you have Pat Kinsel to thank. And if one day your identity is not stolen after you purchase something on the web, you may have Pat and his team to thank for that, too. As Co-Founder of the identity-verification company Proof, formerly known as Notarize, Pat Kinsel gets animated about problems that are important but largely invisible, vulnerable moments during pivotal online interactions that can come back to haunt us if the right protections aren't in place. So he's building a trust layer for the internet with clients like Visa. Pat spoke with Camber Creek Managing Partner Jake Fingert about how he got started as an entrepreneur and working with partners who appreciate big and lucrative but overlooked problems. 1:19 Growing up in California on the Stanford campus, where his mother worked. Surrounded by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from an early age, Pat says he always knew he wanted to build companies. 2:49 Launching his first company while in college after leaving school to take a job in financial technology.
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