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It’s no secret that business owners want to receive positive reviews and customers want to have a positive experience. In Behind the Review, Yelp and Entrepreneur dig a little deeper on both accounts. Hosted by Yelp’s Small Business Expert, Emily Washcovick, Behind the Review features conversations with reviewers and business owners about their experiences—whether it was one star or five stars—giving listeners behind-the-scenes insights into what was really going on. Restaurants, plumbers, f ...
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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
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- 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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