Moxie Marlinspike, the founder and CEO of Signal, which has gained great popularity among WhatsApp alternative messaging applications, announced that she is resigning from her CEO position. Maxio stated that this is important to the success of the company.
Alternative messaging apps gained immense popularity in the days when WhatsApp forced all its users to approve the policies regarding the processing of their data. If it is one of these applications, even Elon Musk’s Twitter account ‘Use Signal‘ he shared It was the Signal app.
Signal, which experienced an incredible increase in the number of users in those days and continues to be used today, has received important news today. Moxie Marlinspike, Founder and CEO of Signal, undertaken for about 10 years He resigned from his CEO position. explained. While the new CEO of Signal has not been announced, the person who will take on this task temporarily has also been announced.
“Important to increase the success of Signal”
In his blog post, Marlinspike stated that he will remain on the board to help Signal achieve its goal. Although the founder of the application did not explain the reason for leaving his CEO position, it that it is important to increase the success of Signal explained. He also explained how he founded Signal by himself and for a long time even managed the call center himself. He added that Signal today consists of a team of 30 people.
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Moxie Marlinspike announced that she has been looking for a new CEO to manage the company since the past months, and now she has announced this to everyone with her blog post and is waiting for possible candidates. He will continue to serve as CEO until the new permanent CEO is announced. temporarily Brian Acton will undertake expressed. Acton, He was the co-founder of WhatsApp and founded the Signal Foundation with Marlinspike in August 2018. Acton, in his previous statements He argued that everyone should delete Facebook.