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▶ 0:22 Matt Mullenweg It was the publishers, I think, of news.com.
▶ 22:35 Guy Raz You got an offer, a job offer from CNET, which is still around. 6 times in the scene
▶ 27:11 Guy Raz So CNET was, was the only one that said, yeah, you can retain everything. 3 times in the scene
▶ 31:32 Guy Raz So you're at, at CNET, and, and clearly they're okay with you kind of working on this, this WordPress.org open source thing on the side. 5 times in the scene
▶ 33:44 Guy Raz And he's actually presented it to his employer, but once again, they didn't want it. 5 times in the scene
▶ 35:59 Guy Raz All right, so, so meanwhile, you are still at CNET, and you launch the company that, that'll wind up being kind of the umbrella organization for WordPress, and, and eventually, you
▶ 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
▶ 45:04 Guy Raz And I think by that, late that year, in October of, of, of, of, you did get a little bit of money, a little bit over a million dollars that you raised from, from a few people, including CNET, right?
▶ 52:04 Matt Mullenweg You know, I worked for this company for a while, but, you know, one of the things I learned at CNET as well is that sometimes, I don't know if I was the best at working for other people.

▶ 51:00 Don Katz CNET named us the number one entertainment app on the web, and, ah, you know, things that made us feel pretty good, but as you, you know, also point out the,

▶ 15:24 James Park I think the second one came in a day later, but we got two emails, one from, uh, CNET, which is a huge digital publishing company, and then we got another email from Yahoo, 3 times in the scene
▶ 16:57 Guy Raz So you sell your company to CNET in 2005, and you've got some money in your pocket, and, um, and you moved to San Francisco to work for CNET. 5 times in the scene
▶ 23:32 Guy Raz So, I mean, you leave CNET in 2007 and you've got 400,000 to come up with a prototype that, that quickly run out of that.

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