It’s my nice honor to be requested to steer ECC as CEO.
I need to thank Zooko for all the things he’s taught me within the six years that I’ve recognized him. I’ve deep respect and admiration for Zooko and his contributions to this business and to mankind. He’s a really exceptional human. There’ll solely ever be one Zooko.
Zcash is a particular venture. Its function to empower financial freedom is healthful and good. Its legacy is indelible. The innovation inside and the expertise behind it are simple. That it thrives is important. All of the earth should have entry to non-public, self-sovereign cash if we’re to be free.
To comprehend it, we should start to maneuver into a brand new season with a distinct rhythm. Our focus can be to search out product-market match. That can require a steady and iterative technique of remark, hypotheses improvement, and testing. We are going to work with you to invent new issues.
This can be a time of wide-eyed discovery, experimentation, and pulling our strengths collectively to make magic occur. We can be one crew, 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 boundaries, at ECC and throughout the neighborhood, that impede our skill to iterate shortly
- 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 assist of those priorities, a number of modifications will instantly take impact:
- We are going to optimize ECC’s organizational construction to assist effectivity and enhance the probability of our success.
- Inner processes and insurance policies will change to assist 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 neighborhood. Realizing a renewed Zcash requires a refrain of voices, each inside ECC and throughout the Zcash neighborhood. I sit up for collaborating with you.
I’d wish to thank Zooko and the opposite Bootstrap (ECC guardian) Board members, together with Alan Fairless, Christina Garman, Michelle Lai, and Zaki Manian, to your management, and thoughtfulness. This belief is the consideration of my skilled life.
I’d additionally wish to thank the various of you throughout the neighborhood who’ve engaged with me in current weeks on the way forward for Zcash — ideating, dreaming, encouraging, and collaborating. You recognize 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