YouTube head of gaming Ryan Wyatt to resign and join Polygon Studios as CEO

On Tuesday, Ryan Wyatt, caput of gaming astatine YouTube, announced helium would beryllium leaving the video-sharing level successful February. Partly owed to his leadership, YouTube Gaming sees implicit 250 cardinal regular logged users per time with hundreds of billions of ticker clip each year. Wyatt cited his passionateness for blockchain and Web 3.0 improvement successful explaining his resignation. H volition soon articulation Polygon Studios arsenic its CEO.

Polygon Studios is the gaming and non-fungible tokens, oregon NFTs, limb of the namesake furniture 2 Ethereum (ETH) scaling web (MATIC). Polygon plans to perpetrate $100 cardinal to projects led by its subsidiary studio, which debuted past July. The firm's objectives are to make decentralized gaming; pull blockchain enthusiasts to its NFT tokens ecosystem, and found Polygon arsenic a competent blockchain for the Web 3.0 transition. Regarding his caller role, Wyatt said:

"I volition beryllium focusing connected increasing the developer ecosystem done investment, marketing, and developer enactment and bridging the spread betwixt Web 2.0 and 3.0. I'll beryllium starring the Polygon Studios enactment crossed gaming, entertainment, fashion, news, sports, and more."— Ryan Wyatt (fwiz.eth) (@Fwiz) January 25, 2022

In his departure statement, Wyatt described fond memories of his archetypal time astatine Google's Mountain View, California office successful 2014. He besides expressed his gratitude to CEO Susan Wojcicki and CBO Robert Kyncl for hiring him 8 years back. Meanwhile, Polygon Studios gave Wyatt a lukewarm invited to his caller role.

— Polygon Studios (@_PolygonStudios) January 25, 2022