Andrew Millich is the CEO and co-founder of Skiff. After spending years programming in security and autonomous vehicles - and spending time working around the world - Andrew co-founded Skiff. Andrew graduated from Stanford University as a Henry Ford II Scholar.
Andrew introduces presentation and Skiff - 0:29
The origins of Skiff - 0:38
Starting to use encrypted products. - 1:20
The new upcoming standard of privacy. 1:41
Skiff is an end-to-end encrypted private workspace. - 2:15
This is the right way to build collaborative products. - 2:38
Whether as an artist, writer, everyday Internet user, you never know where your data is going unless its end-to-end encrypted. - 3:01
Today’s end-to-end encrypted products. - 3:20
Massive upswell in reaction against Big Tech and their practices/values - 3:50
Skiff goes above and beyond. Private onboarding and values with Skiff. - 4:24
Skiff has more than 2 million users. - 5:21
You can never trust your data unless a product is E2EE (end-to-end encrypted). - 5:45
Open-source and cryptography. - 5:57
Bad track record of closed cryptography. Open-source cryptography is the way to go. - 6:26
Productivity and open source hand-in-hand. - 6:55
Building a great text editor. - 7:30
High surface area for productivity apps. - 8:00
We love working on email. It’s a notification center for your email. - 8:40
Critical you have an email and domain online that you trust. - 9:14
Skiff includes email aliasing service, and annoying sender services. - 9:41
Russia banning Skiff - 11:06
Making sure your product is compliant. - 11:50
Seeing the banning as an opportunity, to showcase values. - 12:15
Compliance forms around encryption in applications. - 12:40
Governments becoming more interested in getting hands on encrypted data. - 13:07
Anti-encrypted movements going on around the world. - 13:40
All of these rights we’re seeing being eroded in Western countries. - 14:20
Skiff has more than 2 million users, evolving into a productivity suite. - 14:41
Being transparent when building privacy focused products. - 15:20
How to get involved and contribute to Skiff. - 15:59
Encrypting and storing data on IPFS - 16:20
Any questions? - 16:50
How much is E2EE in the sales pitch for companies, where people might not care as much? Is privacy enough to get people to switch? - 17:00
Steep drop-off if your product isn’t good. - 18:00
Building a great UX product. Years of building great features. Privacy to trust you, and features to get people to switch their workflows. - 18:25
Who stores the keys in your products? - 19:20
Users store the keys. Difficult UX problem for account recovery. - 19:45
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