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Another Podcast 30 
Startup Acquisition Stories 18 
In Depth 16 
Mixergy 16 
the a16z Podcast 13 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 12 
Starter Story 11 
Lenny's Podcast 10 
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Latent Space 9 
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All-In 6 
the Neon Show 5 
A Product Market Fit Show 4 
TBPN 3 
No Priors 2 
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Founder's Journal 1 
Sourcery 1 
Capital Allocators 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where WordPress comes up on Top Founders, Startups For the Rest of Us, How I Built This, We Live to Build, the Startup Ideas Podcast
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
- ▶ 14:50 Matthew Prince So like WordPress, most popular platform for hosting content. 6 times in the scene
Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- ▶ 22:05 Amelia Ibarra He has the saster.com WordPress API.
Agents Are Your New Power Users: How Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki Is Remaking a $1.4B Business
- ▶ 32:53 Andrew Bialecki And I remember seeing WordPress and be like, wow, this is magic.
Marketing Agents Masterclass (GROW your startup)
- ▶ 4:45 Cody Schneider So last episode, we talked about AI for WordPress. 3 times in the scene
The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
- ▶ 8:37 Amelia Ibarra We have this weird Divi thing that I don't know how to use. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:14 Amelia Ibarra I was like, yes, of course we should update the page, but we, we could never find a WordPress developer to actually help us do it and get the job done without breaking things or duplicating weird things in our SEO. 2 times in the scene
Marketing Agents Are Too Good Now
- ▶ 4:01 Cody Schneider And then, uh, just to jump into it, the first business that I want to talk about to use is kind of like a, just a, uh, a sandbox for like, how would you actually build and deploy these agents for this, like this company type, um, is AI for…
- ▶ 5:56 Greg Isenberg You got me thinking that, I actually think that the, there's a bigger opportunity here than just the lovable for WordPress because, and you don't know this about me, but back when I was 19 years old, 2000 and, I don't know, I'm bad with… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:59 Cody Schneider Or how do I, you know, do this work with my WordPress site? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:26 Cody Schneider And outcomes, uh, that people that run WordPress websites, uh, have, um, for like, why would they buy an AI, uh, WordPress tool that basically like solves all the plugin problems and makes it so that they can vibe code the design of the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:40 Cody Schneider You can pull out the insights from those and then run ads basically off of, off of those insights that you aggregate.
- ▶ 29:29 Greg Isenberg You know, let's say we wanted to do that WordPress plugin idea, and let's say we wanted to compete with Yoast, the SEO plugin.
Making $$$ with Loop Engineering
- ▶ 24:47 unnamed speaker If you have a WordPress blog, maybe you want to give access to WordPress. 2 times in the scene
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 50:28 Matthew Prince So, you know, like, um, a while back of three, three, four months now, um, we, um, we, we rewrote WordPress, uh, in, in Rust in order to, um, in order to, to, to, um, to, to deliver it. 4 times in the scene
⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
- ▶ 0:14 unnamed speaker Uh, you were, I were active in the WordPress community.
- ▶ 37:52 Ahmad Awais Like, I've spent like, 13 years in WordPress core.
Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
- ▶ 1:32 Jason Lemkin Like, we're on, some of the things we still use, we use all the vibe coding tools, but then we also still use, like, WordPress and Squarespace, and now I'm like, I don't know if we need these anymore.
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.
Our AI is Hiring! Would You Work for One? And Are Autonomous Agents ... Safe? The Agents #005
- ▶ 3:18 Jason Lemkin We're pulling from YouTube and X and WordPress and other places.
- ▶ 15:57 Jason Lemkin Okay, what I am, I'm a dashboard, a database, some scheduled jobs, and GPT-Foro mini glued together with six weeks of code, Bizabo, Salesforce, Marketo, WordPress, X, and YouTube.
- ▶ 38:25 Jason Lemkin I just couldn't get Squarespace or WordPress to do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:21 Jason Lemkin We were hooked up to the WordPress API.
My AI Design Workflow That Doesn't Ship Slop
- ▶ 13:52 Greg Isenberg Like you, you know, you come across a website, it's a Shopify, it's a WordPress, it's a framer, it's whatever.
Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
- ▶ 44:40 Jason Lemkin I mean, not to continue this rant, but a million, I tried for two years to find a WordPress developer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:45 Jason Lemkin I'm like, do you know I can go into Jetpack on WordPress and see this in 60 seconds?
AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
- ▶ 1:08:55 Shawn Wang Uh, it was just a WordPress plugin, right?
Stop Vibe Coding. Start Getting Customers.
- ▶ 9:26 Greg Isenberg You can create a template in your framework, like, you know, Next.js, Webflow, WordPress doesn't, you know, just stick with the thing that you're going to use.
FULL INTERVIEW: Kevin Espiritu on Growing Epic Gardening
- ▶ 1:27 Kevin Espiritu I'm, I'm designed to make content, but, um, for, for Epic, it was really a calling card for remember when you used to design WordPress websites back in the day, like when people actually paid for that service, I, I use the blog as like a…
#2299 Zapier is using AI to sell to AI
- ▶ 12:05 Wade Foster There was all these, like, WordPress theming businesses. 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel Explains the AI War While Cooking | In-Context Cooking
- ▶ 3:35 Dylan Patel And then he's like, dude, why are you like, why are you like posting on WordPress?
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
Claude Code built me a $273/Day online directory
I Make $150K/Month From 20 Tiny Apps
- ▶ 2:02 Katie Keith Uh, 19 of our products are WordPress plugins. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:54 Pat Walls How did you find WordPress as this opportunity? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:07 Katie Keith If I'm building WordPress websites for clients, then I would look at creating WordPress products. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:48 Katie Keith We use WordPress. 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
- ▶ 1:11:02 Dylan Patel Why would I use Word when Claude will just generate the markdown, and I can copy and paste the markdown directly into our WordPress, and then, you know, and that WordPress is fully formatted now, and it's like, 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Dylan Patel Says We’re Still Underestimating AI
- ▶ 31:02 Dylan Patel Uh, I had a WordPress blog.
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 3:11 Lenny Rachitsky Think of it as lovable for WordPress, front-end and back-end. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:10 Jason Cohen So, um, so there could be something that's not direct anymore.
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 3:06 Lenny Rachitsky Think of it as lovable for WordPress, front-end and back-end. 2 times in the scene
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 2:36 Lenny Rachitsky Think of it as lovable for WordPress, front-end, and back-end. 2 times in the scene
65% of Their Sites Now Start This Way (Most Founders Miss It)
- ▶ 1:44 Sean Weisbrot What's the biggest differentiator between Duda and something like a WordPress or a Wix for people who aren't really sure?
- ▶ 7:56 Sean Weisbrot Like for example, I used WordPress for years and for probably almost a decade or more, I was using Divi where you have elements and you put information into these blocks.
- ▶ 22:02 Itai Sadan And I think some of the competition, which kind of the Wix, the WordPress, the Squarespace, they were coming from the other side.
An Honest Conversation About What Being a Founder Really Feels Like | Arpita & Ananda
- ▶ 24:05 unnamed speaker And we actually ended up, uh, building a firewall, not for enterprises, but, uh, we found that niche that people like small and medium enterprises, uh, who having like WordPress sites, Magento stores, like, uh, they face security issues…
He tested his idea in one weekend—then raised $120M. | Wayne Slavin, Founder of Sure · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:08 Wayne Slavin At that point, it was a, you know, WordPress site template.
David Lyon – Hybrid Capital Solutions for Private Assets (EP.471)
- ▶ 10:30 David Lyon You're going down to WordPress.
Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not a Profile. It Is a Landing Page.
- ▶ 18:25 Sean Weisbrot And I killed my WordPress website.
#2282 Neil Patel’s insanely powerful AI sales machine
- ▶ 19:27 Neil Patel The last day check and everyone who's coding on our end, it doesn't matter if you're coding on WordPress and building themes and pages, everyone on our, in our corporation uses cursor.
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
No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
- ▶ 15:48 Zach Lloyd It's like, it's kind of like the evolution of like either a Shopify storefront or like WordPress or Squarespace or something like that.
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.
DevDay 2025: Apps SDK, Agent Kit, MCP, Codex and why Prompting is More Important than Ever
- ▶ 37:04 Alessio Fanelli Does it feel, I mean, I know WordPress is like a bad connotation in a lot of circles, but to me it almost feels like the WordPress equivalent of like chat is like, Hey, this is like drop in thing. 2 times in the scene
How to Build a Startup in 2025? | Shikhil, Co-Founder Astra Security
- ▶ 3:04 Shikhil Sharma So how, how would we create something which actually prevents them on, you know, WordPress and all these CMSs and websites.
The Complete Guide to Vibe Coding without a Developer with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 4:53 Jason Lemkin Our WordPress site.
- ▶ 24:51 Jason Lemkin We, you know, one of the reasons I redid saster.ai in, in Replit was because Amelia and I hired two different WordPress developer shops to update our saster.com WordPress site. 2 times in the scene
#2279 How are there so many AI agencies?
- ▶ 2:05 Rob Howard Teaching people how to code, teaching people WordPress stuff, just through day-to-day life and just enjoying that, knowing that's a fun, you know, place to be.
- ▶ 21:43 Andrew Warner I guess it kind of reminds me of how when WordPress came out, I thought, why would I hire anyone to create a WordPress site? 2 times in the scene
Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- ▶ 6:28 Andrew Chen We had, you know, Google Reader, RIP, and then you had kind of basically a phase, you know, Chris, when, when I met, um, uh, you know, your, your co-founder, Hamish, um, initially, and the, and the company was, was three people, um, this…
Making $$$ with MicroSaaS
- ▶ 21:20 Greg Isenberg You're a WordPress, a WordPress app.
How this dumb doll makes $2M per day
Genspark vs ChatGPT, my brutally honest review
- ▶ 23:44 Greg Isenberg Ooh, app marketplace listings, create a Shopify app store, e-commerce business ideas section, WordPress plugin directory, Chrome extension store.
How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 22:39 Paul Klein And I think the thing is same, the same thing is true of the internet, where we have this internet, this legacy, like GeoCities and WordPress websites and old forms are still there, um, and we really want to help AI bridge the gap to the…
How I Use AI & Reddit to Find $1M+ Startup Ideas (FULL Blueprint)
- ▶ 24:10 Greg Isenberg So find two star Shopify WordPress plugins with high usage, low, low stars. 4 times in the scene
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
ChatGPT Found His Hidden Negative Loops. It Shook Him for 2 Days
- ▶ 17:17 Sean Weisbrot I haven't, I haven't pushed it yet because like I'm on WordPress and it hasn't created a WordPress theme
1 year in he had just 3 customers—today he’s at $100M ARR. | Forrest Zeisler, Co-Founder of Jobbe... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:52 Forrest Zeisler And we quickly whip out back then that was usually WordPress websites.
Bootstrapped, Built, Sold: Luka’s Micro-SaaS Exit
- ▶ 2:00 Luka Pekibar And, uh, at the time there was like, um, also one popular, um, website where you could, uh, purchase different, uh, either WordPress, uh,
AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture
- ▶ 6:40 Sean Weisbrot I used Dreamweaver and Frontpage a long time ago, and then it was kind of replaced by LiveJournal, which was then replaced by WordPress, and I've used WordPress since its early days.
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- ▶ 22:43 Adam Guild We basically had forked WordPress and built a version that was super opinionated, that had all of the best practices for restaurant owners to drive SEO and conversion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:22 Adam Guild So from the very beginning, that WordPress based V zero of our product was, it is not going to be on you to create the website.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 31:04 Zeno Rocha So they have like this, it's like a WordPress alternative and you can just create a cloud version of it.
6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
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
These 7 AI startup ideas will print $100k/Month (with proof)
- ▶ 4:58 Cody Schneider They charge on the bandwidth, but you could just do like WordPress sites for all of them.
I built a Cash Flowing Online Directory in 54 minutes (using Ahrefs and WordPress)
- ▶ 3:16 Frey Chu How to implement it on, on a, on a WordPress website, but you can use any content management, content management system, uh, that you.
- ▶ 42:17 Frey Chu I have WordPress up somewhere here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:13 Greg Isenberg I think what's cool about it is you can go and build this, use, you know, use WordPress, use Framer, use whatever, um, and have it just be this 2000 dollar, 5000 dollar a month thing that just sends you what I, you know, I use the term…
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.
How to Prime Your Business For a Seamless Acquisition with Sukhpal Saini
- ▶ 7:54 Sukh (Paul) Saini So the right buyer actually had a WordPress plugin. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Katlin Smith of Simple Mills
Episode 750 | Making Your First Hire, Testing Prices, And More Li...
- ▶ 9:38 Laura Roeder I have a guy I'm working with through Upwork right now that's doing, so we use Divi on WordPress, so we kind of needed someone who's familiar with that system, and he's in Pakistan and he charges 15 an hour.
Episode 746 | 9 Startup Predictions for 2025
- ▶ 21:20 Rob Walling Because WordPress, I feel like has always been a pretty friendly platform until this year when Matt Mullenweg slash WordPress, you know, made the decision to be very aggressive with WP Engine and take, apparently take over plugins. 2 times in the scene
Episode 745 | Reflecting on 2024: Revisiting My Predictions, The...
- ▶ 6:16 Rob Walling And then WordPress and Matt Mullenweg started to implode.
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 1:20 Wade Foster Um, and, uh, Brian and I, specifically, we'd been, uh, playing in this, like, jazz and blues quartet, and just, like, you know, working on, like, WordPress plugins, and things, like, anything to, sort of, like, make a buck at the time.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
- ▶ 28:30 Marc Benioff Put in our data cloud and then just unleash that on agent force in front of our, uh, you know, uh, WordPress website.
3 startup ideas from the co-founder of Loom (make $120k/mo)
- ▶ 14:29 Greg Isenberg You just use Zapier to eventually like post it to your WordPress blog or whatever it is.
How Ian Blair Jumped From Building Apps to Selling Laundry Sauce With Acquire.com
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 2:11:54 John Coogan Oh, put a, put a website on the, on, on the internet, and it just rebuilds WordPress from scratch for you.
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 49:41 Florent Crivello It's always, it's always, uh, GitLab and WordPress and Zapier, and it used to be InVision. 2 times in the scene
Episode 735 | The 8 Levels of SaaS Platform Risk (A Rob Solo Adve...
- ▶ 0:16 Rob Walling And I'm not just going to talk about the traditional, I have a Shopify app or heaven forbid your WordPress web host this week, but I'm going to look at, at platform risk from a sense of any type of reliance 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:52 Rob Walling Interesting data point, as of a week or two ago, I had seven levels of platform risk, and the WordPress WP Engine kerfuffle basically begged the question of, well, let's say you are built on WordPress, what's the platform risk of that,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:34 Rob Walling The fourth level of platform risk is the one that I added for the WordPress kerfuffle. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Rob Walling And if you're hosted on AWS or using SendGrid or using WordPress, you can rebuild it.
- ▶ 25:42 Rob Walling I said, it's like, if you're built completely into WordPress and completely in it, it depends on is your switching costs low, medium or high to rebuild it somewhere else.
Genius SEO Hacks This 34 Year Old Used to Bootstrap to $55m Revenue with Omnisend CEO Rytis Lauris
- ▶ 2:40 Rytis Lauris App stores, like Shopify App Store, BigCommerce, uh, WordPress App Stores, et cetera.
Do this to make more money from your startup
- ▶ 25:18 Neville Medora If you start designing the page, which is always tempting, you're going in Framer, you're going in whatever WordPress, it's tempting to like make it look pretty, but we're not trying to make pages that look pretty.
Episode 730 | The SaaS Launchpad: The Ultimate Course for Launchi...
- ▶ 17:02 Craig Hewitt Or it's, you know, freaking homegrown WordPress stuff, which.
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