Alex Atallah, one of the OpenSea Co-Founders, announced that he will be stepping away from the NFT marketplace next month and wants to start “building something from zero to one” again. OpenSea Co-Founder Stepping Down In a mirror article, Alex Atallah wrote that he is comfortable with OpenSea’s progress and believes it has “a great foundation in place.” Hence, he decided to take a step down in order to continue his passion of “building something from zero to one” once again. Some news: I’ll be stepping away from OpenSea next month, but remain on the board. With a team in place that I trust & our new VP of Eng, @markoiskander, joining next week, I’m ready to build again from 0 to 1. More in the update I shared with the team: https://t.co/WMZY2UruUo — Alex Atallah (@xanderatallah) July 1, 2022 However, Alex Atallah will continue to remain on the Board of Directors at OpenSea. Kevin Pawlak will continue to lead OpenSea Ventures. 0age will take Atallah’s place overseeing the NFT Security Group. Marko Iskander will be joining the OpenSea team as VP of Engineering next week. “OpenSea will always be a part of me. I couldn’t possibly stop thinking about the exciting problems we solve every day, even if I tried. And now that we have all of you, I know I can venture on – with full confidence that you’ll continue building and growing OpenSea in the right direction,” Alex wrote in the blog post. “I’ll be taking at least a month off in Au...
