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Article: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside

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Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO of Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform she helped lead since its independence from Twitter. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider, an existing advisor and investor, will serve as interim CEO while a permanent replacement is found. Graber will transition to the role of Chief Innovation Officer, focusing on new projects for the platform, which has grown from 30 million to 40 million users in the past year.

Both executives reaffirmed their commitment to Bluesky's mission of building an open, user-controlled, and decentralized social web. Schneider emphasized the platform's dedication to user ownership of identity and data, as well as the need to earn the trust of third-party developers.

The main topics covered are the leadership change at Bluesky, the platform's user growth, and its ongoing commitment to decentralization and an open social web.

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https://www.theverge.com/tech/891562/bluesky-new-ceo

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2026-03-09 20:24

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2026-03-09 18:30

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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.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber will step aside
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.
According to Graber, “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.”
In a blog post of his own, Schneider writes that while he was initially skeptical about decentralized social, he became a believer in it after meeting Graber and COO Rose Wang two years ago. “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,” writes Schnieder.