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#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key Jan 5, 2021 · 36 mentions

• ▶ 1:28 Shane Parrish Matt's the co-founder of WordPress, the open platform that runs most of the sites you visit, as well as the CEO of Automatic.
• ▶ 10:29 Shane Parrish And was Akismet the start of automatics? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 11:26 Shane Parrish Tell me a little bit more about Automatic. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 14:42 Matt Mullenweg I suppose I should mention that Automatic from the beginning has been distributed, so we always were people working from all around the world. 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 26:48 Matt Mullenweg In non-pandemic times, a lot of automaticians love dropping their kids off from school and picking them up.
• ▶ 34:06 Matt Mullenweg So for example, inside automatic, we have this internal blogging system called P two. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:40 Matt Mullenweg So if you joined automatic and say, Shane, you know, uh, as part of, you know, deciding whether to take this job offer or not, expect that you will be traveling three to four weeks per year.
• ▶ 45:48 Matt Mullenweg I'd say that very much automatic is a written communication culture, and I believe clear writing represents clear thinking, and we filter for this in our hiring, and we, we talk about writing a lot, so we like
• ▶ 53:17 Matt Mullenweg Most of our teams do have regular recurring meetings, but automatic probably has.
• ▶ 58:36 Matt Mullenweg Maybe all of automatic, or maybe one of these like subsidiaries, one of these like subs, um, could go public on its own. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:00:13 Matt Mullenweg I tried to design Automatic to be a fractal organization. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:11:56 Matt Mullenweg You know, one of the best advice I got early, which was from, um, early at Automatic, I actually hired a CEO. 4 times in the scene