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After 'Civil War' and Anti-Immigrant Tweets, Ryan Selkis Told to Cool It by His Crypto Startup's Leadership
Ryan Selkis, founder and CEO of crypto data platform Messari, rarely if ever holds back on social media, regularly lobbing insults via X (formerly Twitter) at Gary Gensler's Securities and Exchange Commission and others. Still, his tirades this week after an assassin's bullet grazed Donald Trump stood out, even for Selkis. And colleagues at Messari, which has financial backing from major firms such as Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital and hedge-fund titan Brevan Howard and was reportedly once valued at $300 million, apparently asked him to cool it. "Just had a terrific 'tough love' session with Messari leadership, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate people who approach me in good faith and help rein me in because they know my vision and where my heart is," he posted Thursday. "I ran too hot this week, and will address that in full soon." So what's this about? It might have something to do with how worked up he got on X after the attempt on Trump's life. (As of Thursday, he'd made his tweets private. They remain visible to his 354,000 or so followers.)
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