"Toni believes deeply in the Bluesky mission, and has been an advisor to the company and 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."
"The commitment to an open, user-controlled social web isn't going anywhere. You own your identity, your data, your graph. If anything, we're doubling down.... Open platforms only thrive when third-party builders can trust them. We will continue to work on earning that trust and moving towards a fully decentralized system."
Jay Graber, who founded Bluesky as an independent platform after it spun out from Twitter's research project in 2021, is transitioning from CEO to Chief Innovation Officer. Toni Schneider, a venture capitalist and former Automattic CEO, assumes the interim CEO position while the company searches for a permanent replacement. Bluesky has grown from 30 million to 40 million users over the past year. Schneider, initially skeptical of decentralized social networks, became convinced of the mission after meeting Graber and COO Rose Wang two years ago. Both leaders emphasize commitment to an open, user-controlled internet where users own their identity, data, and social graph, with plans to continue advancing toward full decentralization.
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