Proton Leadership Considered Harmful

Proton Leadership Considered HarmfulWhen you can’t audit the code, you need to trust the source. I’ve entrusted Proton with my digital life since 2021. Today, that trust has been broken by CEO Andy Yen. From the 404 Media report Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning : Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, had a message for an employee in the company’s security Slack channel who urged the company to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live. “That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure,” Yen wrote in the channel at the end of August. “Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster." Childish statements such as “loser thinking” in response to expert opinion are not the mark of a serious leader that I can trust with my digital life. Instilling cultures of fear among your employees is how you lose good, honest, and conscientious people. Focusing on “velocity”…