Bluesky Social Jay Graber speaks on stage during 2025 Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies Summit & Gala at Jacob Javits Center on June 05, 2025 in New York City. () | Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Fast Company
Jay Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky in 2021 when the network and its AT Protocol spun out from life
as a Twitter research project
to go independent, but now she's leaving that role, as reported previously by
Wired
. While venture capitalist and former Automattic CEO Toni Schneider steps in as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found, Graber
says she will become Bluesky's Chief Innovation Officer
, focused on building new things for a platform that has gone from 30 million users
about a year ago
, to 40 million currently.
According to Graber, "Toni believes deeply in the Bluesky mission, and has been an advisor to the company a …
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