{"id":3158,"date":"2023-01-28T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/28\/breaking-yuga-labs-founder-taking-leave-of-absence-for-health-reasons\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T17:00:59","slug":"breaking-yuga-labs-founder-taking-leave-of-absence-for-health-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/28\/breaking-yuga-labs-founder-taking-leave-of-absence-for-health-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Yuga Labs Founder Taking Leave of Absence for Health Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Moments ago, Wylie Aronow, one of the co-founders of <a href=\"https:\/\/nftnow.com\/guides\/yuga-labs-an-overview-of-the-nft-company-taking-over-the-metaverse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuga Labs<\/a> announced that he would be taking a leave of absence from the company for health reasons. In a tweet, Aronow (better known by his pseudonym, Gordon Goner) stated that he had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure by his doctor. \u201cSymptoms started last year out of the blue and I put off seeking help (like an idiot) so I could keep working. But after testing, my doctor called and asked me to radically change my life,\u201d he wrote.  <\/p>\n<p>In order to tend to his health, Aronow said that he would be stepping down from his role at Yuga. \u201cI\u2019m going to be taking a leave of absence to focus on my health for a while,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Aronow continued by explaining that he lost most of his twenties to a chronic illness and that he pushed himself far too hard during his time at Yuga. \u201cI worked 12 hours a day, nearly every day. I should have taken the advice from everyone around me and sought balance. My goals now are to get the best medical treatment I can and heal,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some heavy news: a few days ago I was told by my doctor I have congestive heart failure. Symptoms started last year out of the blue and I put off seeking help (like an idiot) so I could keep working. But after testing, my doctor called and asked me to radically change my life.\ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GordonGoner.eth (Wylie Aronow) (@GordonGoner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GordonGoner\/status\/1619372809352007682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nftnow.com\/news\/breaking-yuga-labs-founder-taking-leave-of-absence-for-health-reasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments ago, Wylie Aronow, one of the co-founders of Yuga Labs announced that he would be taking a leave of absence from the company for health reasons. In a tweet, Aronow (better known by his pseudonym, Gordon Goner) stated that he had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure by his doctor. \u201cSymptoms started last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nftnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Yuga-Labs-Bored-Ape-Yacht-Club-NFTs-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}