‘Make sure Ethereum wins’ — Steve Newcomb reveals zkSync’s prime directive By Cointelegraph

Steve Newcomb is a Silicon Valley veteran with a long list of achievements. He built software for trading energy in the 90s, was a pioneer in adding email to phones, and helped create the back end of the Bing search engine under Peter Thiels mentorship. Today, he heads up development for Berlin-based Matter Labs, which is building scaling solutions for .

I was very much a skeptic when it came to cryptocurrency and blockchain, explains Newcomb, zkSyncs chief product officer. He adds that it took two years of study before he understood the topic and the benefits to his satisfaction.