Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
Those tweets were a pretty big red flag to me, especially his fawning over JD Vance/etc.
With this leak, it seems pretty clear that hes fully silicon valley brain rotted. I found this excerpt from the article also very telling, especially how he wants Proton to be a Chinese style “996” company:
Those tweets were a pretty big red flag to me, especially his fawning over JD Vance/etc.
With this leak, it seems pretty clear that hes fully silicon valley brain rotted. I found this excerpt from the article also very telling, especially how he wants Proton to be a Chinese style “996” company: