Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step down

Jay Graber became Bluesky’s first CEO in 2021 when the network and its AT protocol went off the air As a research project on Twitter To become independent, but now she is leaving that role, as I mentioned earlier Wired. While Tony Schneider, the venture capitalist and former CEO of Automattic, is serving as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found, Graber is serving as interim CEO. She says she will become Bluesky’s chief innovation officerfocused on building new things for a platform that has surpassed 30 million users About a year agoto 40 million currently.

According to Graeber, “Tony believes strongly in Bluesky’s mission, and has been an advisor to the company and to me personally for over a year. Both Automattic and True Ventures are also investors in Bluesky, and support the development of a more open, user-driven Internet.”

In his own blog post, Schneider wrote that while he was initially skeptical about social decentralization, he became a believer in it after meeting Graber and Chief Operating Officer Rose Wang two years ago. “Committing to an open, user-controlled social network is going nowhere. You own your identity, your data, and your graph. If anything, we’re redoubling our efforts….Open platforms only thrive when third-party creators trust them. We will continue to work to earn that trust and move toward a fully decentralized system,” Schneider wrote.