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Anthropic Raises $30BN at $900BN Price | SpaceX Files S1: How Does it Trade | Cerebras Smashes Day 1 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:08 Jason Lemkin And there was a whole world, uh, four or five years ago where, where you had WooCommerce from WordPress, you had Wix, you had Squarespace, and you had BigCommerce who all were viable competitors to Shopify.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:43 Jason Lemkin I can't like, I can barely bring myself to use to WordPress. 2 times in the scene
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:16 Jason Calacanis and so I just don't think a billion is a lot, and Rory, help me, what's, what's the TAM for mediocre outsourced dev shops and WordPress agencies? 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 1:06:22 Zach Lloyd And I worry that what they're building is like the next gen of WordPress or Squarespace or Webflow.
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
- ▶ 40:28 Harry Stebbings What happens to WordPress? 2 times in the scene
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:04 Fabien Pinckaers They have a lot of spreadsheets, but they use Slack for discussion, MailChimp to send email, WordPress for a website.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:11 Guillermo Rauch Um, but it's fascinating to like, look back on those examples because I have so many where like, uh, I remember when, when Matt from WordPress, I sold my company to WordPress said, we have to install Slack and deprecate IRC. 2 times in the scene
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:41 Joost de Valk 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.
- ▶ 4:28 Joost de Valk And we grew along with WordPress and, um, with Matt in many ways.
- ▶ 9:26 Joost de Valk I think people still underestimate what Matt has done with WordPress and how, I mean, more than 40% of websites on the web are WordPress sites. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:18 Joost de Valk So for me, WordPress, the project is super important to me as a person, which I think Matt has to, has as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:19 Joost de Valk And that's the problem of building a WordPress plugin because you don't have to laboratory going back to your systems all the time. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:04 Joost de Valk And honestly, WordPress is out there.
- ▶ 38:18 Joost de Valk But the things that people search for are terms like WordPress SEO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:13 Joost de Valk It competes directly with WordPress, so I'm always gonna say not good.
Tristan Handy: Why The CEO Should Make As Few Decisions As Possible | 20VC #937 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:35 Harry Stebbings I have Matt Mullenweg on the show from WordPress who spoke about the budgets that they give to all employees to go work in a coffee shop, to go find a local space.
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. 4 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? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:20 Matt Mullenweg And, uh, there's a gentleman in the WordPress community actually named Chris Lima, who is just so incredible.
- ▶ 8:59 Matt Mullenweg Automatic's the company that I ended up building after WordPress, um, or on top of WordPress.
- ▶ 17:24 Matt Mullenweg And it's just, I think it's actually super strategic for us over the next decade because Tumblr has a much younger user base than WordPress. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:13 Matt Mullenweg 19 when WordPress started.
- ▶ 29:25 Matt Mullenweg That would have been obviously life-changing, and of course we considered it from a variety of angles, but it felt like that was a small fraction of the impact that WordPress and Automata could have, um, in the coming years.
- ▶ 38:14 Matt Mullenweg But it's nice, and it's cliched now to talk about first principles thinking, but like, I remember there was a technical issue where we were challenging or struggling with WordPress.com, but WordPress.com is like a nationally multi-tenant…
- ▶ 54:08 Harry Stebbings Did he see your success with WordPress? 2 times in the scene
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?
- ▶ 26:38 Christoph Janz Maybe a plugin to WordPress is all that it takes or that developers would rather want to build it themselves using some open source components because they don't want to trust a startup with their most precious content and data.
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
- ▶ 4:29 Tony Schneider And Matt is the incredibly talented co-founder of the WordPress open source project, and Automatic looked like a great opportunity for me to grow as a CEO.
- ▶ 20:52 Harry Stebbings And WordPress ran as a 2 times in the scene
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: 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
- ▶ 36:55 Vlad Magdalin So covers use cases from WordPress and Shopify, but The next five years are all about expanding that into broader software use cases.
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
- ▶ 11:41 John Callaghan The strategy consistently puts us early in big markets, whether it's, you know, in MakerBot or Fitbit or WordPress or Peloton or, you know, all these names and things, but what really what
20VC: Tony Conrad on Straddling The Role Of Founder & Investor, What True Founder/Product Fit Looks Like & The Dangers of Party Rounds
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings The makers of WordPress, Fitbit, Blue Bottle Coffee, and recent unicorn Peloton.
- ▶ 7:23 Harry Stebbings Is this something you'd agree with maybe from your perspective, having worked with the likes of James, Matt at WP, Kevin, what's your perspective on this?
- ▶ 10:13 Tony Conrad By being on board, such as WordPress, or working with people like Heat and Shaw, you know, you learn a lot.
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
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings Now Ed is the founder and CEO at Memrise, the app that makes learning languages joyful, and they have funding from some of the best in the world, including Lira Hippo, Balderton Capital, and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, just to name a…
James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 18:30 James Altucher Books, but also I can learn how to make, uh, WordPress websites on lynda.com, and I can start charging for them by using freelancer.com.