Entrustet

Dealing with digital Afterlife — Financial Times

Emma Thomas interviewed me for an article about people with interesting jobs…

Last week Google announced Inactive Account Manager, a way to decide what happens to your Google accounts when you die. Google is the first major company to create a viable, real service to actually help their users plan for their…

While we were running Entrustet we became famous for calculating how many Facebook users would die in a given year. Morbid, I know. Jesse and I originally calculated this stat in March 2010 on the eve of our launch at South By…

I’m excited to announce that Entrustet has been acquired by SecureSafe, the market leader in secure storage of digital information and digital inheritance. Since Jesse and I started Entrustet in a spare classroom at the University of Wisconsin, we’ve had one vision: to…

It’s been two years since I started Capital Entrepreneurs, an organization to help Madison entrepreneurs connect. I’ve been blown away by how fast CE has grown and how quickly time has gone by. On our two year anniversary, here’s the story of…

Note: Jesse Davis, Entrustet’s cofounder, wrote an in depth how to guide on his blog. Please read it. My post is only an advertisement for his post.

Last summer, we hired 9 interns for Entrustet. It was one of the best decisions we’ve made as a company…

At the end of the segment on NPR’s Forum yesterday, the host asked me if my life or worldview has changed at all since starting a death-focused company. I deal with death on a regular basis. It’s forced me to confront many…

I’ve been planning to write this post like this ever since getting accepted into Startup Chile, but it all came together the past few days.