Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
The fortunes of mail and VPN provider Proton will be managed by a foundation in the future. In this way, the founders around Andy Yen want to ensure the independence and direction of their company for the future and remove it from the influence of profit-oriented shareholders.
so much for this ‘protection’
(emphasis mine) from heise.de
and like half the shit in this blog post written by lord proton himself, andy yen, ceo, announcing that foundation.
if this (op link) is any indication of how he treats those who work for proton, this guy needs to go… founder or not… ceo or not.
he was already skating on the proverbial thin ice with his magat/trump support.