Automattic's interim CFO didn't even make it a month in the chair.
Jeremy Klaperman took over as interim chief financial officer roughly three weeks ago, and he's already gone. Sources told TechCrunch his exit followed a demotion back to his previous role, not a mutual parting on equal terms. That makes him the latest executive to leave amid what sources describe as ongoing boardroom turmoil at the company. Automattic hasn't commented publicly on what went wrong.
A CFO who doesn't survive a month signals something is still broken beneath the surface. Interim titles are built to be short, but not usually this short, and boards don't typically recycle finance leadership this fast unless the underlying problem is still unresolved.
Call it a transition if you want, but a CFO who doesn't survive the month rarely is.