Cryptocurrencies

Crypto Winter Claims High Profile C-Suite Execs

Well-known industry leaders are exiting the digital-asset sector for a range of reasons.

Michael Saylor

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What do Michael Saylor, Jesse Powell, Michael Moro, Sam Trabucco, Brett Harrison and Alex Mashinsky have in common? If you said they’re dudes in crypto, you’d be correct. If you said they’re dudes who used to be crypto CEOs and suddenly weren’t anymore, you’d also be correct.

This crypto winter has seen a string of high-profile exits from the C-suite, a mix of resignations and other forms of, to coin a phrase, conscious uncoupling.