Shane Mac is the CEO and co-founder of XMTP Labs, a company working on XMTP, the largest open protocol and network for secure web3 messaging. Prior to XMTP Labs, Shane founded Assist, which built the first business messaging for Facebook Messenger, Apple Business Chat, Google Business Messaging, and SMS. Assist was acquired in 2019. In 2017, Shane co-founded & bootstrapped Squared Away, which provides remote executive assistants powered by military spouses. Squared Away recently passed $25M in revenue, led by his co-founder. Shane currently lives in Nashville, TN.