Take a Bow for the New Revolution

Phillip Linden is the man with the creative vision who started Linden Labs - creators of Second Life. He has announced he is looking for a new CEO. My personal take on this having worked in the tech industry for years is that this is a logical next step for the company and not a sign of either the decline of Second Life, nor the death of the grassroots content creator. I chose the blog title from a Who song whose chorus goes, "Here's to the new boss, same as the old boss." They mean it as a criticism, but when dealing with a fairly revolutionary paradigm shift such as Second Life it's actually an acknowledgement that the revolution we're part of will continue. I plan to stick around and work here, I hope you all do too. Phillip's comments are reproduced in their entirety below.

"We’ve decided to search for a new CEO, and I wanted to briefly talk to everyone
here about the reasons for that decision. I feel that the most important contributions I have made and will continue to make to Second Life are related to building both the product and the company through my direct contributions to vision, strategy, and design. As we grow, the role of our CEO will increasingly be to hire and grow the right team - to lead and help the company scale - to thousands of people and tens of millions of users of Second Life. I believe that we can hire a fantastic person in that role, and also give me the ability to totally focus myself on the job that I do well. I bet this will be the most interesting job opening in the technology world.
As to title, I will become chairman of the board. I will be 100% involved and fulltime at Linden Lab. Second Life is my life’s work, and I am not going anywhere! I will focus on product strategy and vision, continuing to design the right kind of company, and being an effective communicator and evangelist about Second Life. As a community member, you will probably see more of me in-world.
Again, this is a decision driven by my desire to best grow SL and match my job to both our needs and my passions. We don’t have a specific timeline, and I don’t expect my job to change while we are looking for someone.
We’ll organize some further conversations in SL on this topic soon, and as always, feel free to talk to me about this if you run into me in-world."

Full blogpost available here.