HN · HACKER_NEWS// 32d agoNEWS

Bluesky moves Jay Graber to innovation role

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down and becoming chief innovation officer, while former Automattic CEO Toni Schneider joins as interim CEO during the search for a permanent chief executive. The company frames the move as a shift from founding and experimentation toward scaling execution, with Bluesky now claiming more than 40 million users.

// ANALYSIS

Bluesky is making the classic founder transition: keep the visionary close to product and protocol work, then bring in an operator for the next scaling phase.

–Graber staying on as chief innovation officer suggests continuity for Bluesky's open social and AT Protocol strategy rather than a hard reset
–Schneider's Automattic background matters because Bluesky increasingly looks like ecosystem infrastructure, not just a single consumer app
–At 40 million users, the harder problems are now operations, governance, moderation, and developer ecosystem execution

// TAGS

blueskyopen-sourcecloudapi

DISCOVERED

32d ago

2026-03-10

PUBLISHED

33d ago

2026-03-09

RELEVANCE

5/ 10

AUTHOR

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