Adam Zarazinski, CEO of Inca Digital
What’s one significant way coronavirus has affected your work?
Honestly, it hasn't affected our work all that much. We have a proof of work system at Inca. Someone joins the team to accomplish a long term goal. As we move along breaking that goal down to tasks, we come up with a mutually agreed upon timeframe accomplishing those tasks. As a lean start-up, we had to make hard decisions and let outstanding people go simply because they could not deliver on time or had trouble using the tools and infrastructure we set up to ensure work was open, trackable, and scalable.
What’s a typical day like for you right now as we “shelter in place”?
Still the same hectic schedule too! All the things a start-up CEO needs to do – from organizing the team, networking with new clients, handling client requests, to working to raise money – are still on the table.
What’s something that has given you hope for the future after this pandemic?
People are realizing that the system needs to change...and that it can. Old school 9-5 in the office isn't for everyone and companies can operate fine without it. Big, open data is more important than ever as both companies and governments are locked out of their closed, walled-off systems. Global debt is reaching new heights with the pandemic and folks are starting to realize there's a solution already in place: digital currency. Paul Tudor Jones was the most recent big name to turn the corner.
