Social platform Bluesky is undergoing changes, with CEO Jay Graber stepping down and venture capitalist Toni Schneider taking over as interim CEO until the company “finds a long-term successor.”
According to reports, Jay Graber will not leave the company completely. He will become the newly created Chief Innovation Officer, focusing on Bluesky’s technology system, and will no longer be responsible for business operations.
Public information shows that Jay Graber joined Bluesky in 2019, when the project was still under Twitter and positioned as an “experimental project researching decentralized social network architectures.”
After Bluesky became an independent company entity from Twitter in 2021, Jay Graber became its first CEO and drove the platform’s rapid growth in the following years, gradually transforming it from a niche Twitter spin-off into an alternative social platform competing with X.
Toni Schneider served as CEO of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, from 2006 to 2014. He briefly returned to the role of CEO in 2024 during Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg’s leave of absence. It was during this time that he met Graber and subsequently became an advisor to Bluesky’s management. He then steadily built his position within Bluesky, eventually becoming interim CEO.
