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Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:07 Joost de Valk I think I have a tremendous respect for what Matt has done with automatic.
Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings And, you know, we see the incredible journey that you've been on with WordPress and Automatic, but I want to go back just for the beginning and set some context. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42 Harry Stebbings I want to ask a question from Tony Schneider, actually, and he asked, when he first met you, he said, uh, how long do you want to work on WordPress and Automatic for?
- ▶ 8:53 Matt Mullenweg I'm probably in many ways a non-traditional leader, in that Automatic is a very flat organization. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:35 Matt Mullenweg And I feel like I switched between them just in working with different businesses within our company.
- ▶ 18:56 Matt Mullenweg So between 2005 and I think 2014, all of automatic was done with about eleven million in outside capital.
- ▶ 21:20 Matt Mullenweg So one of the best things we can do when we buy something is take some of the best people at automatic, the best engineers, the best designers, et cetera, and we rotate them in to the acquired business. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:48 Harry Stebbings When you think about kind of painful lessons that you've learned, I do want to ask this one, which is, what are the most difficult but valuable lessons you've learned in the automatic journey that although it sucks, you're pleased that you…
- ▶ 29:09 Matt Mullenweg Uh, they, they just weren't very common, but you know, a lot of credit to our investors at the time, you know, in 2008, the company was only about 20 people, just about two years old, and we got an offer to sell for a two hundred million,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:13 Matt Mullenweg So yeah, automatic, uh, had been around for 11 years.
- ▶ 56:01 Harry Stebbings Uh, can I ask, what's the hardest element of your role with automatic today? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:10 Matt Mullenweg You know, broadly, Automatic's mission is to democratize publishing and commerce, and one thing that's been exciting as we've grown is being able to expand into other areas, like social networking with Tumblr, podcasting with Pocket Cast,
20VC: Insight Managing Director, Deven Parekh on The Current Funding Mania, Compression of Round Timelines, Fund Deployment Speeds Increasing & How To Think Through Price and Time Allocation Across the Portfolio
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Comm, Charge, Be, Vinted, and Automatic, the makers of WordPress, to name a few.
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings And so with that, I'm super excited to welcome Tony Schneider, partner at True Ventures, one of the Valley's leading early stage firms with a portfolio, including the likes of Peloton, HashiCorp, Fitbit, Automatic, and Trade.io to name a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 Tony Schneider And then at the same time, I was also talking to Matt Mullenweg about becoming CEO of his company, Automatic, that he had just started. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:15 Harry Stebbings So when you think about your experience with Automatic and the incredible journey there, how do you think that shaped your approach and thinking when investing today? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:34 Tony Schneider I've thought a lot about this because I've had a front seat to working with some wildly talented founders, people like Matt at Automatic, Ethan Diamond at Bank and really many others.
- ▶ 12:25 Tony Schneider Can be stressful, and I think I'm probably in a small minority on this, where I think they don't really don't have to be, and the example I would use is, I guess, the way we did it at Automatic, which was intense at times along the way,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:36 Tony Schneider The way we've approached this at Automatic is to say that there are jobs where geography is important.
- ▶ 26:22 Tony Schneider In automatic experience, I think once or twice a year for a team is enough to
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings One of the West Coast's leading early stage funds with a portfolio, including the likes of Fitbit, Peloton, HashiCorp, Trade.io, Ring, Automatic, the makers of WordPress, and many more amazing companies.
20VC: Hiten Shah on The Right Way To Think About Depression, Control and Burnout, Why Nobody Really Knows What They Are Doing and How One Should Receive Advice As A Result & How To Gain Self-Awareness As A Leader
- ▶ 40:54 Hiten Shah I'm an advisor to Automatic as well as Buffer, and I get to enjoy and see how they sort of run remote teams. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:22 Harry Stebbings Now, Tony is a partner at True Ventures, one of the leading early stage funds on the West Coast, with a portfolio including the likes of Automatic,
20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings With portfolio companies including the likes of Automatic, the company behind WordPress, Blue Bottle Coffee, About.me, and recent unicorn Peloton.
20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
20 VC 034: 250 Investments, AngelList Syndicates and Microsoft with Jon Staenberg
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings John has made an incredible 250 investments in startups, including the likes of the amazing Matt Mullenwigs Automatic, StubHub, and DocuSign, just to name a few.