Kurt Mackey steps down as Fly.io CEO in agent-compute reset

Former Docker CEO Scott Johnston takes over as Fly.io raises $25 million and makes its Sprites infrastructure the center of the business.

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Primary source: Fly.io

Why it matters

Fly.io is pairing a founder succession with a full product reset. The company is betting that stateful computers for AI agents will become a larger business than its original developer cloud pitch.

Illustration of Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey handing leadership to Scott Johnston while the companys Sprites agent-compute nodes glow and connect behind them.

Kurt Mackey (@mrkurt) is stepping down as chief executive of Fly.io, handing control of the cloud infrastructure provider to former Docker CEO Scott Johnston as Fly.io redirects its product and capital toward computers built for AI agents.…

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