Crypto CEO Says He’ll ‘Manage Out’ Any ‘Woke’ Employees the ‘Hard Way’

Fox BusinessJesse Powell, the CEO and founder of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, told the Fox Business Network on Friday that any “woke” employees who stay with his company “will be managed out the hard way” because he doesn’t “tolerate that kind of behavior.”Powell recently sparked an internal culture war at Kraken when he published a 31-page manifesto detailing the company’s “libertarian philosophical values” and devotion to “diversity of thought.” He has also challenged and questioned employees’ use of preferred pronouns, debated over “who can refer to another person as the N-word,” and said questions about female intelligence compared to men’s were “not as settled as one might have initially thought.”Despite the crypto market going through a severe downturn, with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies having lost significant value, Powell has insisted that Kraken will continue to hire. “Krakenites,” he claims, can request or deny “personal language and communication preferences of each other,” give each other “the benefit of the doubt,” and will never “call someone’s words toxic, hateful, racist, x-phobic, unhelpful, etc.”Read more at The Daily Beast.