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Automattic uses zero internal email, relying entirely on internal blogging
“We have no email. We communicate via blogging and yeah, it's very global.”
Matt Mullenweg Jul 11, 2022 ▶ 9:18 Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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WooCommerce processed $31 billion in GMV in 2021
“It did thirty one billion and a GMV sold last year.”
Matt Mullenweg Jul 11, 2022 ▶ 20:12 Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Mullenweg: Automattic received a $200M acquisition offer in 2008
“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 which, you know, I owned a majority of the company.”
Matt Mullenweg Jul 11, 2022 ▶ 29:09 Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Mullenweg: Automattic has been fully distributed since 2005 across 97 countries
“So we've always been totally distributed from the beginning since 2005. So I have colleagues in 97 countries.”
Matt Mullenweg Jul 11, 2022 ▶ 9:23 Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Automattic raised $160 million in all-primary capital for Series C in 2014
“We ended up doing our series C, which we raised, you know, we went from eleven million dollars to raising one hundred and sixty million. It was all primary capital.”
Matt Mullenweg Jul 11, 2022 ▶ 19:50 Matt Mullenweg: How I Founded WordPress; Storytelling Tips; How to Give Feedback | 20VC #905 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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