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OpenSea welcome new CFO from ride-sharing app Lyft By BTC Peers

by Mike Robinson

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OpenSea is pleased to welcome Lyft, a ride-sharing company, as their new Chief Financial Officer

OpenSea, a leading NFT marketplace, has appointed Brian Roberts as its new chief financial officer. He was previously the CFO at ride-sharing company Uber. Lyft (NASDAQ:).

According to a Bloomberg report, Roberts is interested in raising more funds for OpenSea’s booming NFT marketplace. Roberts also plans to launch an IPO. Investors might be able soon to acquire equity through a stock market. He reportedly said that “you’d be foolish not to think about it going public.”

Roberts has confirmed these reports via Twitter (NYSE.:) posts. Notable is the fact that Lyft’s longtime CFO took the company public.

Robert served as the Lyft CFO before he took on his new position at OpenSea. He was previously the head of corporate development for Microsoft (NASDAQ:), before joining Walmart (NYSE 🙂 in order to manage its mergers-and acquisitions program.

The new CFO is not familiar with crypto, and has more experience in NFT. However, he stated to Bloomberg that Web 3 and NFT sector are similar to the middle nineties eBay (NASDAQ).

The topic of NFTs is hot since its inception. OpenSea sees more than a million of these NFTs sold each month according to Dune Analytics. Over 300,000 users have been registered on OpenSea since the start of the year.

OpenSea’s founder, tech veteran and investor John S. Smith has set his sights on additional funding. However, OpenSea doesn’t need it to survive. Additional investments may be made to acquire companies and partners that can help foster growth in the NFT sector.

Roberts’ departure from Lyft is yet another example of how executives and tech experts are migrating from “traditional” firms towards fast-rising Web 3 crypto startups.

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