{"id":54187,"date":"2021-12-06T20:07:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=54187"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:10:55","slug":"nft-marketplace-opensea-hires-former-lyft-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nft-marketplace-opensea-hires-former-lyft-cfo\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT marketplace OpenSea hires former Lyft CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bryan Roberts, the former chief financial officer of ride-hailing service Lyft, has joined the OpenSea NFT<\/span>-marketplace team. He will take on a similar role there, Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Previously Roberts worked at Walmart and Microsoft. In 2014 he moved to Lyft, and five years later one of Uber’s main rivals went public on Nasdaq.<\/p>\n

The executive expressed optimism about OpenSea’s prospects, comparing its potential to eBay in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs your company grows that fast, it’s foolish not to think about an IPO. The marketplace will be well received on the public market, given its growth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In July 2021 OpenSea raised $100 million<\/a> at a valuation of $1.5 billion. By the end of August, trading volume on the platform exceeded $3 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier reports in November said the company targeted a $10 billion valuation<\/a> following a new round of funding. In the same month daily sales on OpenSea doubled<\/a> thanks to a surge of interest in the Bored Ape Yacht Club.<\/p>\n

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Former Lyft chief financial officer Bryan Roberts has joined OpenSea’s NFT marketplace team. He will take on a similar role there, Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1265],"class_list":["post-54187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-opensea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54189,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54187\/revisions\/54189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}