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caryn seidman becker

T2 · manager / operator

Caryn Seidman Becker co-founded and leads Clear (NYSE: YOU), the secure identity platform with 30M+ members. She previously ran Arians Capital, a hedge fund that invested early in Apple, Amazon, and Priceline. She bought Clear out of bankruptcy in 2010 for $6M, took it public in 2021, and serves on the Home Depot board.

6 calls·5 names·83% bull·last heard last year·Invest Like The Best
track record

no scored calls yet — needs a stated position or a categorical verdict, with a matured window vs SPY

top calls

highest conviction · one per company
1sthigh conviction
$YOUClearposition

Clear bought back 22M shares at prices below IPO, signaling undervaluation

Management has repurchased significant stock (from 155M to 133M shares) at prices below the $31 IPO price, demonstrating confidence in intrinsic value and using free cash flow generation to return capital while investing in enterprise identity platform.

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2ndmedium conviction
$HDHome Depot

Home Depot's internal talent development model is a blueprint for scaling leadership

Home Depot's systematic approach to growing leaders internally — taking entry-level employees and developing them into significant leaders over 8-10 years — provides a scalable organizational model that Clear is emulating to build depth and reduce hiring risk.

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3rdmedium conviction
$AXPAmerican Express

American Express model validates vertically integrated identity platform strategy

Amex's vertically integrated model (customer, merchant, bank) delivers superior customer experience and fraud handling; Clear applies same logic to identity — owning enrollment, verification, hardware, real estate, and ambassadors to control the end-to-end experience.

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Home Depot
MEDcaryn seidman becker·Invest Like The Best·last year
Home Depot's internal talent development model is a blueprint for scaling leadership
Home Depot's systematic approach to growing leaders internally — taking entry-level employees and developing them into significant leaders over 8-10 years — provides a scalable organizational model that Clear is emulating to build depth and reduce hiring risk.
"I'm on the Home Depot board and I have learned so much about growing people internally from Home Depot. I've learned great leaders. I mean, incredible leaders, an incredible compa…"
79:00
$YOU
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Clear
HIGHcaryn seidman becker·Invest Like The Best·last year· position
Clear bought back 22M shares at prices below IPO, signaling undervaluation
Management has repurchased significant stock (from 155M to 133M shares) at prices below the $31 IPO price, demonstrating confidence in intrinsic value and using free cash flow generation to return capital while investing in enterprise identity platform.
"Well, we've bought back um let's see, we were I think we peaked at 155 million shares. We're at 133 and change. So, we've bought back a lot of stock. All the stock that we went pu…"
55:29
$YOU
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Clear
HIGHcaryn seidman becker·Invest Like The Best·last year· position
Clear CEO sees identity platform expanding beyond travel into healthcare, enterprise, and stadiums
Clear's 30M+ opted-in members and vertically integrated identity platform (hardware, software, real estate, ambassadors) create a defensible moat to expand from airport security into healthcare patient/workforce identity, enterprise fraud prevention, and stadium experiences, driven by biometrics going mainstream and demand for frictionless, secure identity verification.
"So when we started Clear 15 years ago, what we said is today it's a travel centric company and tomorrow it's the de facto secure identity platform and leisure, access, commerce. W…"
0:54
$AXP
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American Express
MEDcaryn seidman becker·Invest Like The Best·last year
American Express model validates vertically integrated identity platform strategy
Amex's vertically integrated model (customer, merchant, bank) delivers superior customer experience and fraud handling; Clear applies same logic to identity — owning enrollment, verification, hardware, real estate, and ambassadors to control the end-to-end experience.
"I would look at American Express as a vertically integrated financial service company, right? They have the customer, they have the merchants, they have the bank. Certainly Americ…"
6:18
$LANDLINE
Landline
LOWcaryn seidman becker·Invest Like The Best·last year· position
Clear invested in Landline to solve airport capacity constraints via bus replacement of regional jets
Landline's model of replacing regional jets with buses that access airport back-of-house addresses the physical bottleneck of front-door airport capacity, aligning with Clear's vision of off-site screening and frictionless home-to-gate travel.
"For instance, we invested in a company called Landline, which is replacing regional jets with buses and able to go to the back of the um airport as opposed to the front door."
24:12
$STRIPE
Stripe
MEDcaryn seidman becker·Invest Like The Best·last year
Clear migrating billing system to Stripe to unlock operational leverage
Replacing legacy billing with Stripe's modern infrastructure will improve efficiency, enable new product flexibility, and reduce operational friction — a systems upgrade that historically signals positive inflection for subscription businesses.
"we are in the midst of changing our billing system to stripe and we are super excited about it and the opportunity set there is important."
49:12