WordPress.com
product on 11 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 43 times in 14 episodes since 2018
the Knowledge Project 8 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 8 
Top Founders 8 
How I Built This 6 
20VC 5 
Startups For the Rest of Us 2 
We Live to Build 2 
My First Million 2 
In Depth 1 
American Optimist 1 
Lenny's Podcast
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2022 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2021 11 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
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Mullenweg: WordPress.com has introduced over 100 million users to WordPress
“WordPress.com, having a free version of WordPress that has introduced, you know, over a hundred million people to the software in a way that you could just sign up for free.”
Mullenweg: Automattic enforces strict neutrality between WordPress.com and third-party hosts
“The rest is that help the host. So they cannot preference part of the rules. They can't reference WordPress.com over any other host in the world. WordPress.com gets access to all the same code APIs, everything that everyone else does.”
Automattic spent millions hosting WordPress.com while new apps remained tedious
“At WordPress they had invested
Millions and millions and millions of dollars in becoming proficient at hosting one application, WordPress.com.
But any incremental new app, new product, new feature was very, very tedious.”
Mullenweg: Automated site migration under 15 seconds drove WordPress.com growth
“And we got it down to where most of them take now under 15 seconds. And that feature's been working really well, and it actually drove, like many years of enhanced growth for WordPress.com.”
China represented up to a third of WordPress before being blocked
“The other thing was about a quarter or a third of our usage at the time was in China. And China decided that the Great Firewall would block WordPress.com.”