On January 29, 2021, the Parler board controlled by Rebekah Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parler. I did not participate in this decision, over the past few months, I’ve met constant resistance to my product vision, my strong belief in free speech and my view of how the Parler site should be managed.

John Matze

Every day it changes wildly, but I feel confident now, we’re making significant progress. When you go into Parler.com it does n’t go into the void now, it hits a server, and it returns just one piece of information.

We’re going to be putting periodic updates there.

Now we can actually rebuild Parler, it’s critically important.

Despite all of this, we haven’t even had one employee quit, not one, even with them being harassed and threatened, no one has quit… we’ve got such a strong team, this has just made them believe in us more.