Yancey Strickler to Succeed Perry Chen as CEO of Kickstarter
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Yancey Strickler to Succeed Perry Chen as CEO of Kickstarter
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Re: Yancey Strickler to Succeed Perry Chen as CEO of Kickstarter
#2Is this a "promotion" along the lines of what happened at Twitter? I wonder if it's an issue of VC/Early employees wanting to direct the company towards an exit vs. setting up as an institution for the long haul? Or is it just a more artistically minded co-founder moving on?
Re: Yancey Strickler to Succeed Perry Chen as CEO of Kickstarter
#3Is this a "promotion" along the lines of what happened at Twitter? I wonder if it's an issue of VC/Early employees wanting to direct the company towards an exit vs. setting up as an institution for the long haul? Or is it just a more artistically minded co-founder moving on?
I don't know, but the timescale is very different from Twitter. The founder's been CEO at Kickstarter for 5 years. Twitter went from Noah->Jack->Ev->Dick in four years.
Re: Yancey Strickler to Succeed Perry Chen as CEO of Kickstarter
#4Is this a "promotion" along the lines of what happened at Twitter? I wonder if it's an issue of VC/Early employees wanting to direct the company towards an exit vs. setting up as an institution for the long haul? Or is it just a more artistically minded co-founder moving on?
I don't think so. Perry and Yancey have very similar ideas for the company, and I don't think Perry is truly gone (Charles, it sounds like, pretty much is). This sounds more like Perry taking a break after 6 years of nonstop crunch mode.