12/20/2022 at 2:00 p.m. by Susanne Braun – Daniel Alegre, President and Chief Operational Officer of Activision Blizzard, is quitting his job at the entertainment company to become CEO at an NFT company, namely Yuga Labs, until March 31, 2023. responsible for the NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club.
Daniel Alegre has served as President and Chief Operations Officer of Activision Blizzard for the longest time (almost three years) until March 31, 2023, when he will take up a new role at Yuga Labs and become Chief Executive Officer of the company that brings the world to life delighted with the Bored Ape Yacht Club Collection NFTs. According to the authors of GamesIndustry.biz, this emerges from a letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Alegre came to Activision Blizzard from Google in 2020 and was confronted with various internal problems and lawsuits against the developer studio and publisher house during his creative period. The memories of the sexism lawsuits by various state authorities will be most vivid for most of them. Just as often, the headlines about the problems at Activision Blizzard and its subsidiaries focused on equal pay, gaslighting and union formation, or management’s efforts to prevent union formation. At GamesIndustry.biz you will find a clear summary of the important topics. It is not yet known who will take Alegre’s position at Activision Blizzard.
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Now for the NFTs
Yuga Labs executives released a statement via LinkedIn welcoming Alegre as CEO in the first half of 2023. Along with the ongoing criticism of NFTs, the folks at Yuga Labs are also facing allegations against NFT social club Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC). In September 2022, for example, the hacktivist group Anonymous alleged (via Cointelegraph) that the company Yuga Labs was using esoteric symbolism to support racism and pedophilia. According to other reports, the company should have made false promises to investors with BAYC and ApeCoin (via btc-echo).
