The previous NBC Common govt will lead Twitter as CEO; Elon Musk will keep on board in different capacities.
Elon Musk has named Linda Yaccarino as the following CEO of Twitter. The brand new govt is already attracting controversy and has drawn consideration from the crypto group.
Musk introduced the information in a tweet on Could 12, writing:
“I’m excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the brand new CEO of Twitter! [She] will focus totally on enterprise operations, whereas I concentrate on product design & new know-how.”
Yaccarino will begin on the firm within the subsequent six weeks, Musk mentioned.
Amongst her previous roles, Yaccarino beforehand served as Chairman of World Promoting and Partnerships at NBC Common. Some commentators have prompt that her expertise is in step with Twitter’s current concentrate on monetization and promoting and that she’s going to reform the corporate’s advertising and marketing actions.
Yaccarino’s private views are additionally controversial. She is extensively thought of conservative and has seemingly endorsed Musk’s controversial insurance policies, calling free speech “the bedrock of this nation” in dialog with Musk. Her obvious tolerance for present coverage has attracted criticism from left-wing commentators.
Nonetheless, right-wing commentators have additionally criticized Yaccarino for her involvement with the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) and her pro-COVID lockdown stances.
Although Yaccarino’s course for Twitter remains to be unclear, her consciousness of cryptocurrency is of curiosity to the blockchain group.
Yaccarino is at the moment following a number of cryptocurrency-related accounts, together with the official accounts for Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), Dogecoin founder Billy Markus, and varied different associated accounts. Musk has controversially promoted — or shilled — Dogecoin, presumably indicating tht Yaccarino is following Musk’s lead.
The main crypto trade Binance, which partially financed Musk’s Twitter buyout in 2022, can also be following Yaccarino on Twitter.
Maybe extra considerably, Yaccarino commented on a 2018 CNBC interview that includes NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman. She tweeted: “so nice listening to [Friedman] discuss cryptocurrency futures and blockchain methods.”
However Yaccarino in any other case has few connections to crypto, and it’s unlikely that she’s going to change Twitter’s course to concentrate on blockchain.
In actual fact, Twitter has already launched blockchain options: lately it added NFT profile photos and crypto tipping. It additionally maintained a crypto division that was initially fashioned below the management of its earlier CEO, Jack Dorsey.
Although these crypto options stay, the division’s head and Dorsey himself have each resigned. Musk has taken few steps to combine crypto regardless of his endorsement of Dogecoin, and as such, the corporate’s future blockchain plans are unsure.
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