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Automattic received a $200M buyout offer with only 20 employees
“Because we were only 15, 20 people at the time. I still owned well over half the company. And so this idea that the for-profit company that we'd been building for about two years was gonna be, had this offer. A very serious offer turned a million dollars was r…”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 51:28 WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
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Automattic raised $10M at a $200M valuation for secondary liquidity
“So what they did was they took the two hundred million dollars, and they said, okay, that'll be the valuation of the company. We'll do a new round of investment, but instead of putting in one million dollars, we're going to put in ten million dollars into the …”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 54:15 WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
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Automattic currently employs staff distributed across 93 countries
“I have colleagues in 93 countries.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 1:11:52 WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
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Spam blocker Akismet was Automattic's first commercial product
“The first commercial product I created Was called a kismet, named by my sister.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 21, 2022 ▶ 43:15 WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
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