Aragon One CEO Jorge Izquierdo Resigns in Protest of ‘Governance’ Decisions
Aragon One CEO Jorge Izquierdo has resigned, becoming the highest-profile departure in a recent flurry of resignations.
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The decentralized governance protocol has seen 13 resignations among related staff over the course of the last week. It’s been a rough week for the Aragon governance platform where philosophical differences have brought about a long list of resignations.Aragon co-founder Jorge Izquierdo announced on Jan. 11 he would no longer be working as CEO of the for-profit Aragon One, a company dedicated to building tools and services related to Aragon. Aragon is an Ethereum-based platform involved with decentralized governance. The announcement took place just hours after news broke that Aragon had....
Eleven staffers of Aragon One and one from the Aragon Association have announced their resignations Thursday due to an apparent lack of financial transparency.
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