It’s my nice honor to be requested to guide ECC as CEO.
I wish to thank Zooko for every little thing 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 prospers 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 special rhythm. Our focus can be to seek out product-market match. That can require a steady and iterative technique of commentary, hypotheses growth, and testing. We’ll 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 workforce, 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 group, that impede our skill to iterate shortly
- Focus efforts to exponentially enhance Zcash utility by way 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’ll optimize ECC’s organizational construction to assist effectivity and enhance the chance 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 group. Realizing a renewed Zcash requires a refrain of voices, each inside ECC and throughout the Zcash group. I sit up for collaborating with you.
I’d prefer to thank Zooko and the opposite Bootstrap (ECC guardian) Board members, together with Alan Fairless, Christina Garman, Michelle Lai, and Zaki Manian, on your management, and thoughtfulness. This belief is the honour of my skilled life.
I’d additionally prefer to thank the various of you throughout the group who’ve engaged with me in current 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
