John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity, has resigned from the company in the wake of the pricing controversy.
The news isn’t a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing through a price increase based on numbers of downloads — and then retracted it after an uproar.
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About that, he did sell a portion of his Unity stock a week before the happening, but wasn’t it something like only 5% of his portfolio?
Enough for living expenses ;)
Why would he liquidate entire position which would draw extra attention