It’s my nice honor to be requested to guide ECC as CEO.
I wish to thank Zooko for all the things he’s taught me within the six years that I’ve identified him. I’ve deep respect and admiration for Zooko and his contributions to this trade and to mankind. He’s a really outstanding human. There’ll solely ever be one Zooko.
Zcash is a particular mission. Its objective to empower financial freedom is healthful and good. Its legacy is indelible. The innovation inside and the expertise behind it are plain. That it thrives is significant. All of the earth should have entry to personal, self-sovereign cash if we’re to be free.
To comprehend it, we should start to maneuver into a brand new season with a unique rhythm. Our focus might be to seek out product-market match. That can require a steady and iterative strategy of commentary, hypotheses improvement, and testing. We are going to work with you to invent new issues.
This might be a time of wide-eyed discovery, experimentation, and pulling our strengths collectively to make magic occur. We might be one staff, in live performance with each other, quickly ideating and iterating, whereas working collaboratively with many throughout the Zcash and crypto ecosystem.
My close to time period priorities are threefold:
- Take away friction and limitations, at ECC and inside the group, that impede our potential to iterate rapidly
- Focus efforts to exponentially enhance Zcash utility via user-focused merchandise and continuous suggestions
- Safe ECC monetary sustainability so we will ship extra, for longer
In help of those priorities, a number of adjustments will instantly take impact:
- We are going to optimize ECC’s organizational construction to help effectivity and enhance the chance of our success.
- Inner processes and insurance policies will change to help elevated focus, empowerment, and voice.
Whereas I’ve been requested by ECC to formally assist forge a brand new path forward, ECC is just one participant within the Zcash group. Realizing a renewed Zcash requires a refrain of voices, each inside ECC and throughout the Zcash group. I look ahead to collaborating with you.
I’d wish to thank Zooko and the opposite Bootstrap (ECC father or mother) Board members, together with Alan Fairless, Christina Garman, Michelle Lai, and Zaki Manian, to your management, and thoughtfulness. This belief is the glory of my skilled life.
I’d additionally wish to thank the numerous of you throughout the group who’ve engaged with me in current weeks on the way forward for Zcash — ideating, dreaming, encouraging, and collaborating. who you might be, and also you’re invaluable each to me and this legacy we’re collectively constructing with Zcash. All of us want one another, now greater than ever. Let’s go!
Josh
