Shift AI Podcast

A new communication paradigm with XMTP Labs CEO Shane Mac

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In this episode of Shift AI, Shane Mac CEO at XMTP Labs shares his experience as a startup founder, how to run a remote-first venture backed startup and his philosophy on how digital messaging and communication will evolve in the future.

In this episode of the Shift AI podcast, we cover the following topics:

  • Early Experience: Shane discusses how his early experience as a young CEO of a startup in San Francisco and the imposter syndrome that he felt shaped they way that he approaches his new company and how he treats those around him.
  • Family Influence: How Shane’s father’s discipline impacted his work ethic and how growing up in a small town masked some of the anxiety that he would later comes to terms with as an entrepreneur.
  • Emotional Intellegence: How alcohol and extreme confidence helped to mask insecurities that he is finally coming to terms with in life.
  • Startup Culture: How do you give people the permission to make mistakes, to say I need help to focus on being the best employee they can be without doing things for the sake of being busy.
  • AI and Creativity: How AI has transformed our ability to use the computer as a tool to be more creative by helping us prototype our ideas.
  • XMTP and Secure Messaging: How securing messaging and payment is changing the way we think about identity and how we can move from carrier to carrier safely with our DM’s and followers in tact.

    • Connect with Shane Mac

    • ⁠Twitter⁠
    • ⁠LinkedIn⁠

      • Connect with Boaz Ashkenazy

      • ⁠Twitter⁠
      • ⁠LinkedIn⁠
      • Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠


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