ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Maika Isogawa is the Founder and CEO of Webacy, a platform for securing digital assets for the unexpected. Maika is a former professional acrobat and performer for the Cirque Du Soleil brand of shows. She is also a Stanford '20 alumnus with a special concentration in Symbolic Systems, a program which combines the study of Human Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Linguistics, Philosophy, and more. Maika was most recently a Cybersecurity Engineer for Microsoft. She has since founded Webacy, and has been recently recognized as a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Topics Covered by Maika Isogawa in this Episode
- What Webacy does
- What led Maika to found Webacy
- Maika's experience and background
- Her experience as a first-time tech founder
- Finding her co-founder and deciding to start a company together
- Onboarding their early team members
- How Maika's skills learned as a Cirque Du Soleil acrobat apply to being a tech startup founder
- Navigating the Web3 space
- The vision for how Webacy's relatively small target market will grow
- Webacy's hybrid go to market strategy
- Approaching trust and safety in crypto
- Maika's view on the community element of Webacy
- Maika's path from leaving Microsoft to building Webacy
- Raising Webacy's pre-seed funding round
- How angel investors have provided value beyond funds in building Webacy
- How they're thinking about future fundraising
- Maika's view on Webacy's competitors
- Webacy's unique value proposition in digital asset security
- How Maika finds balance with her wide variety of interests
- What's next for Webacy
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