WordPress, every mention
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every year anyone Matt Mullenweg 40Guy Raz 36Tina Roth-Eisenberg 1Scott Farquhar 1Rashid Ali 1Pete Maldonado 1Lucie Basch 1Katia Beauchamp 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WordPress comes up
Advice Line with Katlin Smith of Simple Mills
Cultivating a creative community with Tina Roth-Eisenberg of CreativeMornings
- ▶ 32:20 Tina Roth-Eisenberg Basically, mostly big tech companies like, you know, Basecamp, Squarespace, WordPress, Wix, Adobe, um, you know, uh, giving us a slice of their marketing or brand budget, uh, and supporting us.
HIBT Lab! Too Good To Go: Lucie Basch
- ▶ 14:32 Lucie Basch But originally we just had a website and we started with WordPress, like many companies do, I guess.
Chomps: Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali
- ▶ 32:21 Rashid Ali So Pete had built a WordPress site.
- ▶ 43:47 Pete Maldonado So I meant, uh, Rashid mentioned, I built a website on the WordPress platform, which, you know, obviously was a, it was, we got our first orders through that and realized it wasn't, um, wasn't the best process.
HIBT Lab! Against All Grain: Danielle Walker
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 0:43 Matt Mullenweg I just copy and paste it into WordPress. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:23 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Matt Mullenweg tapped into a tiny group of coders who wanted to make blogging better and went on to build WordPress, a platform that now powers more than 40% of websites on the internet. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:30 Guy Raz And did you call it WordPress from the, from the beginning? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:18 Guy Raz Are sort of pursuing this WordPress idea, and officially, I guess, you launched WordPress. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:06 Matt Mullenweg And so every install of WordPress had links to all the main developers. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Matt Mullenweg I think my title was, like, program manager or something, and so I'd get special projects, and also part of what I would do is I would sort of evangelize WordPress within the company to all the different properties and just help out…
- ▶ 31:59 Matt Mullenweg So I had gone to CNET and said, hey, WordPress is cool, but it's really complicated to set up. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:34 Guy Raz So, it's 2005, and Matt has an idea to make WordPress into a tool that can easily be used to build a blog site. 2 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 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:56 Matt Mullenweg So they actually removed WordPress from Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:37 Matt Mullenweg The idea was for it to be a business, and, you know, part of the idea was that WordPress would always be free, and that's maybe the razor, but perhaps we could figure out some razor blades we could sell, some add-on services that would be…
- ▶ 46:07 Matt Mullenweg So, actually, the journalist named Om Malek, who was one of the first users of WordPress.
- ▶ 47:45 Matt Mullenweg One thing we did at the time was every website running WordPress, by default, in the template, it would say, powered by WordPress. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:51 Matt Mullenweg I'd want to travel the world and meet WordPress users all over the world.
- ▶ 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. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:59 Guy Raz You, you, there are ten million downloads of WordPress, um, still primarily being used for blogs at that point. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:52 Matt Mullenweg Later, around 2008, 2009, we did start to develop our VIP program, which was enterprise.
- ▶ 1:00:58 Matt Mullenweg It was big businesses, but the first big businesses, it was folks already using WordPress, sometimes using it to a large scale. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:11 Matt Mullenweg Like, he, he enjoyed being, leading small things, and WordPress was getting a lot bigger.
- ▶ 1:14:04 Matt Mullenweg Our mission, which has been pretty much the same since WordPress started, is to democratize publishing and commerce. 4 times in the scene
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- ▶ 28:38 Scott Farquhar We built a content management system, you know, sort of, everyone uses WordPress today, but
Birchbox: Katia Beauchamp
- ▶ 30:46 Katia Beauchamp I mean, your best bet was WordPress, and that's what we had, and we had a lot of really great clip art type of stock images.