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For $209 a year—chump change for many frequent fliers—Clear allows travelers to skip the TSA line. That’s made the 16-year-old company a profitable terminal mainstay, raking in $900 million in revenue and $168 million in net income in 2025.
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“I think people continually underestimate how hard traveling is and how much people want help in travel,” says Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker, 53, who bought the company’s assets and 190,000 people’s fingerprints for $6 million when it went bankrupt during the financial crisis. Today you can use it at 60 airports across the U.S. The New York City-based firm, which went public in 2021, now has a market cap of $7.6 billion, translating into a more than 1,000% return for Seidman Becker and her initial investors. Her 14.5% stake is worth $1.1 billion, making her one of America’s 44 self-made female billionaires.
