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Matt Mullenweg, you’re the co-founder and CEO of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress, and many other things. Welcome ...
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to ...
Automattic’s plan to move Tumblr’s backend over to WordPress is now “on hold,” Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg says ...
Mullenweg also stressed that the 45 hours his team will continue to work on WordPress will make sure that security updates/patches are maintained. “Security is never going to be an issue.
Mullenweg’s open-source empire dominates the web. But his attack on competitor WP Engine may be putting it all at risk. Standing in a bathroom at Automattic’s San Francisco offices, Matt ...
Mullenweg also said that WP Engine is actively selling an inferior product, because the core WordPress project stores every change that is made to allow users to revert their content to a previous ...
Mullenweg, in an interview Thursday with CIO, lamented that WP Engine “could have avoided all of this for $32 million. This should have been very easy,” and he then accused WP Engine of ...
Mullenweg’s comments came in a Reddit thread titled “Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP” in which he explained his side of the issue with WP Engine.
Mullenweg also said, "Automattic had the commercial rights to the WordPress trademark and could sub-license, hence why the payment should go to Automattic for commercial use of the trademark.
Mullenweg’s post, asserting that WP Engine’s defensive lawsuit could potentially shutter WordPress.org and drag on for multiple years, was not well-received.
In the blog post, Mullenweg wrote that of the 8.4% of the company who quit, 18 pulled in more than $200,000 salaries; their pre-tax severance checks will clear $100,000.
Of course, Mullenweg’s control of Automattic extends well beyond the bathroom walls. So does his control over WordPress, the open-source web-content management software that he co-created two ...