Dude Perfect's first CEO is out after disagreeing with the board about the company's next phase

YouTube sports corporate Dude Perfect is losing its first CEO, Andrew Yaffe, aft astir 2 years successful the role, a institution rep confirmed.

Patrick Hurley, a main astatine BP Capital Fund Advisors and an advisor to Dude Perfect, will service arsenic interim CEO. The institution has hired a patient to statesman the hunt for a imperishable main executive.

A associated connection from the company's committee and Yaffe said the alteration was a communal decision.

"After 2 years of beardown growth, Andrew and the Board person decided that now is the correct clip for caller activity astatine Dude Perfect. As the societal media scenery continues to evolve, they developed different perspectives connected the company's adjacent shape and the champion way forward," it said.

The connection said that the institution had grown gross importantly since Yaffe joined, driven by partnerships pinch State Farm, Disney, and others, and expanded done its unrecorded circuit and different initiatives.

The associated connection came via salient publicist Matthew Hiltzik, who's represented a wide scope of nationalist figures and is known for handling situation PR situations, though his activity goes beyond that. In summation to moving pinch Dude Perfect complete the years, he represents chap creator MrBeast.

Yaffe, a erstwhile NBA exec, said successful a LinkedIn station that he and Dude Perfect "decided to spell our abstracted ways."

"I'm truthful proud of what we built together and really overmuch advancement we were capable to make successful little than 24 months, adding world-class talent to our team, defining a ngo to Inspire Play and having clear business results and momentum to show for it," he said.

Axios first reported the news of Yaffe's departure.

Texas-based Dude Perfect, founded successful 2009 by 5 assemblage roommates, is 1 of the fewer creator-led companies to person significant extracurricular funding, raising complete $100 cardinal successful early 2024 from Highmount Capital. The 5 Dudes — Garrett Hilbert, Tyler Toney, Cody Jones, Coby Cotton, and Cory Cotton — are known for their wholesome, kid-friendly contented featuring sports tricks. Based successful Frisco, Texas, the institution has grown into a sprawling endeavor pinch much than 62 cardinal YouTube subscribers, merch sales, and a 22-city unrecorded tour. It's besides announced plans to unfastened a taxable park, but hasn't shared immoderate caller updates.

Earlier this year, Dude Perfect teamed up pinch Good Good, the YouTube play collective, to pat each other's audiences done cobranded merch and unrecorded events.

Good Good besides shook up its activity this week, pinch its CEO and president exiting connected Wednesday amid backlash from a controversial ad pinch its erstwhile partner, Callaway, that critics said promoted unit against women. Good Good mislaid unit and merchandise partnerships arsenic portion of the fallout.

Hiltzik declined to remark connected the position of Dude Perfect's Good Good partnership.