WordPress
7 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 11, 2015 by Jay Acunzo · said 62 times in 20 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (23), Joost de Valk (16), Matt Mullenweg (8), Jason Lemkin (3), Jason Calacanis (2), Guillermo Rauch (2), Zach Lloyd (1), Vlad Magdalin (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- 20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2023 18 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
2022 21 mentions in 2 episodes 11 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The Contentful Memo: Point Nine's Christoph Janz on The Cold Email That Led to a Unicorn Investment, How To Approach Market Sizing and Timing & The Pros and Cons of Pre-Emptive Rounds, When To Do Them vs When Not To?
- 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
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 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
- 20VC: Webflow's Vlad Magdalin on The Journey To Breakeven and Raising A Monster $72m Series A, The Single Most Important Question To Ask When Determining Which Investor To Select & The Challenges of Founders Angel Investing
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2017 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- 20VC: Kevin Rose on Putting The Entire Fund Into Uber, The Future For Mobile & Whether Angels Should Have Super Pro-Rata Rights?
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 1 mention in 1 episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about WordPress, oldest first
May 11, 2015 positive
Startups Should Prioritize Content Problem-Solving Over Custom Blog Design
“Rather than go run out of the gate, create some custom, beautiful blog, better is just use out of the box tools, you know, WordPress, Squarespace, whatever, and just really focus on what you're putting out the door. And for a company, it should be matching, ba…”
Jul 11, 2022
Mullenweg: WordPress originated from forking the abandoned b2/cafelog software
“I started using some software called B-II Cafe Log, actually from a developer out of Corsica, France, and you know, started volunteering on the farms, forums, helping other people out, contributing code, and then what happened was that software actually was ab…”
Jul 11, 2022
Mullenweg: Early Google survey showed WordPress on 0.8% of websites
“And shortly after that, maybe a year or two after that, we started to see WordPress show up in like whole internet numbers. And I remember the first time Google did a survey and they found this weird header in HTTP responses that they were like, we're not sure…”
Apr 12, 2023
Yoast reached one million active users as a free hobby plugin
“Is that the plugin became really big, so it had like a million users. WordPress was growing quite fast, and I suddenly had on this free plugin that I built as a hobby, a million users, and I was spending way too much time supporting it.”
Apr 12, 2023 positive
Apr 12, 2023 positive
Mar 14, 2025 bearish
Biilmann: WordPress has reached the end of its innovation cycle
“I mean, I think WordPress is, is in a challenging position where they are kind of like in the end of their innovation cycle. And I don't think they're in a great position to respond to all of this disruption. So I think like it'll be seen more and more as a bi…”