A Founder's Farewell • Blog • urbit.org
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My goal was always to fire myself at the first possible opportunity. I'm super happy to reach it.
After 17 years, I've left the Urbit project. I've resigned as CTO, board member, and voting shareholder of Tlon (Urbit's corporate sponsor). I've also reassigned my personal galaxies to urbit.org (Urbit's embryonic foundation, still in Tlon's custody). My family still has a few thousand Urbit stars (in long timelock contracts), plus a nonvoting minority in Tlon. This isn't authority, just compensation: I have zero central power over either Urbit or Tlon. Nor will I contribute code to Urbit, nor write nor speak publicly about it. I am actually done here. From the very start, I knew Urbit could
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