Peter Horadan, CEO of Vouched on Digital Identity, AI Agents and Building Billion-Dollar Platforms

In this episode of Software Leaders Uncensored, host Steve Taplin sits down with Peter Horadan, CEO of Vouched, and one of the few tech leaders who has helped scale multiple “boring” backend automation companies into multi-billion-dollar giants. Peter walks through his journey from Microsoft in the pre-internet era to leading engineering at Concur, Avalara, and launching Lockstep before its acquisition by Sage. He reveals why digital identity is on the verge of a massive transformation, how mobile driver’s licenses and cryptographic IDs will replace today’s broken verification, and why AI agents logging in as humans is the next huge security nightmare. Peter also shares candid lessons on remote culture, AI coding limits, leadership, and why anyone with the itch to found a company should stop waiting and start building.