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WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 3:17 Guy Raz Today, WordPress is one of several products that sit under the parent company Matt created called Automatic, a company now valued at over seven billion dollars, and a business that technically doesn't have any offices, despite having…
- ▶ 36:11 Guy Raz All these other services, and you call this thing Automatic, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:56 Guy Raz So, so right around this time, I think you, you also leave CNET entirely to, to, to focus on Automatic, and, and I think the very first project you do after leaving CNET is actually anti-spam software, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:14 Guy Raz Automatic. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:39 Guy Raz So, it's 2007, and Matt has just turned down an offer of two hundred million dollars to acquire Automatic, the company behind WordPress. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:12 Matt Mullenweg So a legal battle would have taken years, and even possibly bankrupted automatic, depending on how long it went. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:07 Matt Mullenweg We'd been working together at the company like seven years. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:20 Matt Mullenweg The discussions internally, you know, we have these internal forums at Automatic where employees can talk about just whatever, some of them anonymous, some of them under their names, and, and these got really, really spicy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:41 Guy Raz The company, I think, Automatic is valued based on all the rounds of fundraising. 6 times in the scene