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Bitwarden's Founder Kyle Spearrin: Building a Password Manager from Scratch
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Jun 1st 2026

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Bitwarden's Founder Kyle Spearrin: Building a Password Manager from Scratch

Hosted by Leo Laporte

A Conversation With the Founder & CTO of Bitwarden, Kyle Spearrin

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Guests: Kyle Spearrin
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Leo Laporte talks with the Founder & CTO of Bitwarden, Kyle Spearrin, about how Bitwarden began as a nights-and-weekends side project — born out of Kyle's dissatisfaction with LastPass following its acquisition by LogMeIn — and how he spent nearly three years running the entire company solo before hiring his first employee. They dig into the scrappy early days of building a password manager from scratch as a self-taught web developer, the brand identity of Bitwarden, and how making the code open source from the start was a deliberate move to earn user trust.

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