- 1. Career
LANTIAN
JAY
Graber
Chief Executive Officer of the Bluesky
Organization: Bluesky
Profession: Chief Executive Officer
Biography
Lantian "Jay" Graber (born 1991) is an American software engineer who has served since 2021 as the CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform created in 2019 by Twitter's Jack Dorsey.
Career
In 2015, Graber began working as a software engineer for SkuChain in Mountain View, California. She then worked in a factory in Moses Lake, Washington, where she soldered together bitcoin mining equipment. In 2016, she began working as a junior developer for the Zcash cryptocurrency. In 2019, she founded the event planning website Happening, Inc.
In August 2021, Graber became the first CEO of Bluesky, a microblogging social platform and public benefit company. Bluesky had been conceived as a new initiative by Twitter's original owners in 2019, but evolved to become a competitor to Twitter following the 2022 acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk.