#326: Maika Isogawa of Webacy, from Acrobat to Tech Startup Founder Building the Future of Digital Asset Management

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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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