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 very exceptional human. There’ll solely ever be one Zooko.
Zcash is a particular mission. Its goal to empower financial freedom is healthful and good. Its legacy is indelible. The innovation inside and the expertise behind it are plain. That it prospers is important. All of the earth will need to have entry to personal, self-sovereign cash if we’re to be free.
To understand it, we should start to maneuver into a brand new season with a distinct rhythm. Our focus will probably be to search out product-market match. That can require a steady and iterative technique of commentary, hypotheses improvement, and testing. We are going to work with you to invent new issues.
This will probably be a time of wide-eyed discovery, experimentation, and pulling our strengths collectively to make magic occur. We will probably 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 obstacles, at ECC and throughout the neighborhood, that impede our capacity to iterate rapidly
Focus efforts to exponentially improve Zcash utility by means of user-focused merchandise and continuous suggestions
Safe ECC monetary sustainability so we will ship extra, for longer
In assist of those priorities, just a few adjustments 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 look ahead to collaborating with you.
I’d prefer to thank Zooko and the opposite Bootstrap (ECC mum or dad) 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 prefer to thank the numerous of you throughout the neighborhood who’ve engaged with me in latest weeks on the way forward for Zcash — ideating, dreaming, encouraging, and collaborating. You realize 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
