Discussion

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on threads

  The first CEO casualty of the trend of tech companies going to war with their users; John Riccitiello former CEO of Unity.

• @alexheath Alex Heath on threads

  ah yes, when the CEO “retires” on a holiday after a major controversy

• @paultassi Paul Tassi on x

  My man is building up quite the resume [image]

• @dmc_ryan Ryan McCaffrey on x

  Didn't Riccitiello sell a bunch of shares right before he tanked the stock and pissed off every game developer customer with his obviously stupid policy change? Anyway good riddance but he no doubt burned a ton of bridges with devs on the way out. Story: https://www.ign.com/...

• @migueldeicaza Miguel de Icaza on x

  The scapegoat has served his purpose.

• @tomwarren Tom Warren on x

  I wonder why he's retiring so suddenly 🤔

• @kellen_browning Kellen Browning on x

  Breaking: Unity CEO John Riccitiello is stepping down, company says. The news comes less than a month after the company angered game developers by introducing a new fee structure, as @MikeIsaac and I reported. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @josephjacks_ @josephjacks_ on x

  Good Riddance! Horrible CEO. We welcome all the disrespected and dejected Unity users to the @GodotEngine community. Meanwhile, it was a WISE move of the Unity board to appoint former @RedHat CEO @JWhitehurst as interim CEO. https://www.streetaccount.com/ ...

• @kriswolfheart @kriswolfheart on x

  Reminder that he isn't the source of all the bad decisions at Unity - he was literally just fulfilling the wishes of the board, and he was probably always intending to do this to try and take the heat off them. https://twitter.com/...

• @thegameawards @thegameawards on x

  Unity CEO John Riccitiello is stepping down effective immediately. The news comes weeks after the company reversed course on its controversial new royalty-based fee strucutre for game developers. [image]

• @ethangach @ethangach on x

  He leaves Unity's stock price less than half of what it started at when in public. Not that that will be reflected in his golden parachute

• @economyapp @economyapp on x

  $U Unity President & CEO John Riccitiello is out after nearly 10 years. Not a big surprise after a catastrophic announcement of a new pricing model (Runtime Fee). James M. Whitehurst appointed Interim CEO. He was previously President at IBM and CEO of Red Hat from 2008 to 2020. […

• @amgsheena Sheena on x

  For a while it has felt like Unity lost touch with their core product being a game engine, hopefully this change in leadership will allow Unity and the people who depend on it to have a long and prosperous relationship. https://www.businesswire.com/ ...

• @aakashg0 @aakashg0 on x

  Unity CEO John Riccitello knows a thing or two about games. He has driven the mobile transformation in games the last 17 years. He said generative AI in games a 10x transformation that will drive exponential growth. [video]

• @stephentotilo Stephen Totilo on x

  CEO John Riccitiello “will retire” from Unity effective immediately. Former IBM president James Whitehurst will serve as interim CEO. This happens just one month after the announcement of new Unity fees that infuriated its developer customers and had to be partially walked back

• @trentkusters @trentkusters on x

  Shout out to every developer who was working hard in the background and on main to ensure this happened. As the head of a studio developing for well over a decade in Unity, this is the first, most critical step for Unity in rebuilding the trust JR and others set fire to.

• r/Unity3D r on reddit

  John Riccitiello is stepping down

• r/gamedev r on reddit

  Unity CEO John Riccitiello to step down, James M. Whitehurst will take his place.

• r/gaming r on reddit

  John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle

• r/technology r on reddit

  John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle