As the CEO of Bluesky, Jay Graber has pushed her company to new heights. Founded by the original Twitter team and dubbed “the new Twitter” following Elon Musk’s controversial acquisition of the social media giant, approximately 30 million users have flocked to Bluesky.
A software engineer by training, Graber has been CEO of the app since 2021, and has vowed to leave the control of the ad-free app in users’ hands. The user-focused approach has stood out to those exasperated by the Twitter/X debacle. Central to this vision is the AT Protocol, an open-source framework that allows users to own their identities, move between platforms, and interact across different services without being locked into a single provider.
Graber views Bluesky as just one step to decentralizing the internet and allowing users to operate without ties to specific apps or platforms. The revolutionary idea has grown millions of users since its inception and grows larger daily.
