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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Investor Toni Schneider is taking over as interim CEO of the 40 million user platform. Investor Toni Schneider is taking over as interim CEO of the 40 million user platform. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 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 th

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Mar 29, 2026·GizmodoT2 · Outlet report
Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Earlier this month, Jay Graber, at the time the CEO of Bluesky, stepped down and took a role as chief innovation officer of the social media platform. As fake as it may sound, chief innovation officer is a real job title, especially in the…

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Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Earlier this month, Jay Graber, at the time the CEO of Bluesky, stepped down and took a role as chief innovation officer of the social media platform. As fake as it may sound, chief innovation officer is a real job…

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Mar 9, 2026·MashableT2 · Outlet reportKEY MOMENT
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down. Here's why

Bluesky, the popular alternative social media platform that rose to prominence following Elon Musk's acquisition of X, is looking for a new CEO to guide it through a growth phase. In a post on Bluesky's website,…

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

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Earlier this month, Jay Graber, at the time the CEO of Bluesky, stepped down and took a role as chief innovation officer of the social media platform. As fake as it may sound, chief innovation officer is a real job title, especially in the…

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T2 · Outlet reportMashableMar 9, 2026

Bluesky, the popular alternative social media platform that rose to prominence following Elon Musk's acquisition of X, is looking for a new CEO to guide it through a growth phase. In a post on Bluesky's website, Bluesky's now-former CEO…

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