Auth0 founded 2013 — managed identity, social login, SSO, SAML
Created 2026-06-21
Summary
Claim: Auth0 was founded in 2013. Managed identity service: social login, SSO, SAML, password hashing — the security-critical pieces of authentication delivered as a service.
Source: Multi-source / Auth0 history.
Confidence: Verified.
Why this matters for Candid: The flagship of the auth-infrastructure commodity-parts entry. Pair with Amazon Cognito and Firebase Auth — 2014-era managed identity peers to Auth0 (peers) and [[pre-auth0-roll-your-own-password-hashing]] for the before-state.
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- reference Research brief: the falling cost floor of "real" web functionality for SMBs (June 2026) relates-to
- reference Amazon Cognito and Firebase Auth — 2014-era managed identity peers to Auth0 relates-to
- reference Enterprise-tier example: customer account portal — Auth0 + RDS + role-based permissions; commodity parts, bespoke assembly still costs depends-on
- reference Timeline 2004–2014: the decade when each of the three historically-expensive parts independently got cheap depends-on
- rule R3 — Rent the commodity parts (Stripe / Auth0 / Algolia / RDS / Lambda); build only what is genuinely differentiated logic depends-on