Staying in the game

I’m four months into my interim CEO role at Bluesky, and it’s time for an update. Most importantly, as of today, the interim part of the title is gone. I’m loving the mission and the job, and I’m all in as Bluesky’s official CEO. This job has been energizing from day one, and the Bluesky team has been a pleasure to work with. Since March, we’ve shipped a slew of new features and products, another 2 million people have joined Bluesky, and close to 200 new apps have launched in the Atmosphere, the open ecosystem of social spaces connected by a single account. All of this tells us that the appetite for social experiences on the internet is vast; far broader than the handful of apps the major platforms offer today. Earlier in my career, I was the founding CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and WooCommerce. WordPress is to websites what the Atmosphere can be to social. WordPress started with indie bloggers and developers and grew to power 43% of the web, with an ecosystem…