CNET, every mention
10 scenes (2022), the whole family · ← back to CNET
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2022 anyone Guy Raz 30James Park 3Matt Mullenweg 2Don Katz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where CNET comes up
Wirecutter: Brian Lam
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 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.