It’s my nice honor to be requested to steer ECC as CEO.
I need to thank Zooko for every thing 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 trade and to mankind. He’s a very exceptional human. There’ll solely ever be one Zooko.
Zcash is a particular venture. 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 significant. All of the earth will need to have entry to non-public, self-sovereign cash if we’re to be free.
To appreciate it, we should start to maneuver into a brand new season with a distinct rhythm. Our focus might be to seek out product-market match. That may require a steady and iterative technique of remark, hypotheses improvement, and testing. We’ll 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 group, 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 inside the group, that impede our potential to iterate rapidly
Focus efforts to exponentially enhance Zcash utility by means of user-focused merchandise and continuous suggestions
Safe ECC monetary sustainability so we will ship extra, for longer
In help of those priorities, just a few adjustments will instantly take impact:
We’ll optimize ECC’s organizational construction to help effectivity and enhance the chance of our success.
Inside 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 stay up for collaborating with you.
I’d prefer 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 respect of my skilled life.
I’d additionally prefer to thank the various of you throughout the group who’ve engaged with me in latest weeks on the way forward for Zcash — ideating, dreaming, encouraging, and collaborating. You understand who you’re, 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
