# Professor JP Eggers comments on Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler's departure from the company

1 Faculty News July 27, 2017 ![Inc. logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032187.jpg?itok=TSGPgNt6)>

Excerpt from [Inc.](https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/kickstarter-ceo-yancey-strickler-stepping-down.html) -- "'If he was stepping down purely because he wanted to go do something else, he would have waited until there was a successor in place,' suggests [J.P. Eggers](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jp-eggers), an associate professor of management at NYU's Stern School of Business. 'The timing seems a little odd,' he added."

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