0 to IPO: What VerifyYou Co-Founder and Former Reddit CTO Learned Scaling Through the Chaos

From founding engineer at Pinterest to CTO of Reddit, Marty Weiner has helped scale two companies to IPO. Now he's building VerifyYou, and bringing every lesson with him.

Human Verification vs. Age Verification: They're Solving Different Problems

Two different questions, two different tools. Conflating them is how you end up with bad policy, annoyed users, and a pile of government IDs stored somewhere you'd rather not think about.

Why CAPTCHA Is Broken (And What Comes After It)

The test designed to stop bots has become the one thing bots reliably pass. Here's how we got here, and what actually comes next.

The Real Reason You Can't Get Tickets to Anything

The ticketing industry has spent years building walls that scalpers treat like speed bumps. Here's what's actually going on, and why the problem keeps getting worse.

How to Know If Your Survey Panel Has a Bot Problem

The bad data looks exactly like the good data. That's the whole problem.

Spray Paint, Botnets, and the Architect Who Kept Pinterest and Reddit Clean

A Conversation with Marty Weiner on a Decade(s) of Fighting Spam

Verification: A Field Guide to Doing It Right (and Very, Very Wrong)

What a 269-check age verification tool and an AI company's standoff with the Department of War taught us about where the industry is headed.

The People Training Your AI Might Be the Same Person

Inside the shadow market where verified accounts sell for $300 and one annotator becomes forty

Discord Wants Your Age. Or Your Papers. Pick One.

The platform's new age verification rollout reveals everything wrong with how the internet thinks about proving you're real.

1 Million AI Bots Just Got Their Own Social Network

1 Million AI Agents Just Got Their Own Social Network. Humans Are "Welcome to Observe."

Congress Wants to Talk About Ticket Bots. But Who's Actually Going to Fix This?

Yesterday the U.S. Senate held a hearing called "Fees Rolled on All Summer Long." Yes, that's a Kid Rock reference.

Why 2026 Is The Year Companies Stop Chasing Bots

72% of business leaders say AI fraud is their top challenge.

The Internet Needs a Trust Layer

From 1% to Double Digits: Why MFA Bypass Rates Suddenly Jumped

Just 18 months ago, MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) bypass rates were below 1%. Today, those rates have climbed into double digits.

The Ban Evader's Playbook: Why 90% Get Away With It

Reddit's most sophisticated ban evasion tool misses 90% of them.

The $130 Billion Trust Problem Nobody's Talking About

Every survey you take feeds a $130 billion industry built on a broken assumption: they can tell who's human.

How Humans Are Losing The Internet

The internet's bot problem is older than you think.