{"id":6606,"date":"2023-05-01T10:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T10:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/yuga-labs-enlists-gaming-legend-mike-seavers-as-cto\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T10:33:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T10:33:22","slug":"yuga-labs-enlists-gaming-legend-mike-seavers-as-cto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/yuga-labs-enlists-gaming-legend-mike-seavers-as-cto\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuga Labs Enlists Gaming Legend Mike Seavers as CTO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/nftevening.com\/yuga-labs-dominates-nft-market-raking-in-35-of-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuga Labs<\/a> announces that they have appointed Mike Seavers as their new Chief Technology Officer. The appointment is set to take effect on May 22nd, 2023. The Apes took to Twitter to copy pasta the news all through the platform.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103112\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-103112 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16.png\" alt=\"picture of  Mike Seavers, and on the Right, Otherside by Yuga Labs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16.png 1200w,   https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16-300x169.png 300w,   https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16-1024x576.png 1024w,   https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16-768x432.png 768w,   https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16-100x56.png 100w,   https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16-150x84.png 150w,   https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16-450x253.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Mike Seavers, Right: Otherside by Yuga Labs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span id=\"Will_Yuga_Labs_Be_Even_More_Epic_With_Mike_Seavers\">Will Yuga Labs Be Even More \u2018Epic\u2019 With Mike Seavers?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mike Seavers takes over the position of CTO from Yuga Labs co-founder, Kerem Atalay. Kerem will now serve as a strategic advisor to the brand. Seavers is an experienced technology and product leader, having spent more than two decades in the gaming industry working on projects like Unreal Engine and Fortnite.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Yuga Labs, Seavers was the Executive Vice President of Development at Epic Games. This is where he led the development teams responsible for creating the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and the Epic Games Store. Prior to that, Seavers served as the CTO at Riot Games. At Riot, he supported the development of popular games like League of Legends, Valorant, and Legends of Runeterra.<\/p>\n<p>Yuga Labs and Bored Ape Yacht Club are thrilled to have Seavers on board as their new CTO. The announcement of his appointment has already caused excitement among members of the BAYC and Yugaverse communities. Moreover, a clever copy pasta follows the announcement. In true Ape fasion, the line \u201cThe Otherside is being built by the people who built Fortnite.\u201d was thrown around Twitter minutes after the announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuga Labs<\/a> CEO Daniel Alegre expresses his excitement in a press release\u00a0 \u201c<em>Mike has a proven track record of taking organizations to the next level, and he shares our vision for how important digital identity and community will be for the future of the internet. We have an opportunity to be the Web3 platform at the forefront of entertainment, and Mike\u2019s expertise will help us scale to achieve that.<\/em>\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Seavers will join the Yuga Labs team on May 22nd. It is from here that he drives the development of the company\u2019s innovative NFT projects. We can\u2019t wait for what\u2019s in store!<\/p>\n<p><iframe data-test-id=\"beehiiv-embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border-radius: 4px; border: 2px solid #e5e7eb; margin: 0; background-color: transparent;\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/embeds.beehiiv.com\/37fed65e-f01c-4c4c-b8f1-1b71da0be0a4\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.beehiiv.com\/37fed65e-f01c-4c4c-b8f1-1b71da0be0a4\" data-test-id=\"beehiiv-embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border-radius: 4px; border: 2px solid #e5e7eb; margin: 0; background-color: transparent;\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-text__wrapper post-content\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>All investment\/financial opinions expressed by NFTevening.com are not recommendations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is educational material.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As always, make your own research prior to making any kind of investment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nftevening.com\/yuga-labs-enlists-gaming-legend-mike-seavers-as-cto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: Yuga Labs announces that they have appointed Mike Seavers as their new Chief Technology Officer. The appointment is set to take effect on May 22nd, 2023. The Apes took to Twitter to copy pasta the news all through the platform. Left: Mike Seavers, Right: Otherside by Yuga Labs Will Yuga Labs Be Even More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6607,"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":[9],"tags":[21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nftevening.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Untitled-design-16.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606"}],"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=6606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nft.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}