MACY#4301 MAYC#4000 MBA#00173
Professional tinkerer, hobbyist NFT trader and enjoyoor.

About Me: Medical doc (MD) with 2 previous digital health start-ups (web 2) that were successfully acquired. I have been building applications for the health sector for over 10 years. It is one of the most difficult industries due to complicated regulations that are constantly in flux, entrenched incumbents, and a heavy need for marketing to drive adoption as patients/users often do not appreciate the full complexity of the problems they face. I believe Web 3 in its current state is facing similar difficulties/barriers to scaling of consumer/enterprise applications and I hope to contribute some experience in this regard.

NFTs led me to dive into web 3 and appreciate its potential and ethos, with the BAYC ecosystem and specifically the days following the MAYC mint being my first true rabbit hole into crypto. My personal perspective is that web 3 is a potential avenue to address some of the maligned incentive mechanisms in healthcare and empower individuals/patients in optimizing their health. Going beyond healthcare there is tremendous potential for web 3 to empower individuals in an increasingly corporatized world in which systems are increasingly rigged against the individual. However, I find that the bulk of existing products are more focused on infrastructure and most attempts at building applications have struggled to sustain beyond initial pilots. My relevant experience from healthtech that can be directly applied to crypto/web 3 includes driving usage among users that require heavy education to guide adoption, incorporating evolving regulations in growth strategy, developing avenues for rapid market penetration and designing growth loops around them for sustained traction.