Matt Mullenweg
15 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 5, 2021 by Matt Mullenweg · across every show →
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Mullenweg argues open-core business models incentivize hiding best features behind paywalls
“I personally don't like that because it seems to take what makes open source successful and essentially, you know, create the incentives against it, right? Because if you play that out 1020 years from now, your very best features are going to go into the paid …”
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Mullenweg: Scaling from 20 to 50 people breaks brute-force collaboration
“Going from 20 to 50 people, you lose that ability to brute force the collaboration and getting everyone on the same page, and you really need to start communicating in a way which is, Well understood across the existing people, but also at that point, you're p…”
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Automattic rejected a $200M acquisition offer when it had 25 employees
“We had an offer at that time to sell the company for about two hundred million, and it was absolutely the right answer not to do it. But I was very close to, and it was partially because I was like, okay, that'll resolve these people issues. I won't have to de…”
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Fully distributed organizations outperform in-person companies across all metrics
“Level five is where I believe that the organization in a distributed fashion is outperforming at every single level, productivity, quality, employee happiness, everything, any in-person organization. Because you've embraced all the power, all the special featu…”
Jan 5, 2021 negative
Automattic intentionally stayed under 50 employees years too long
“And so I really kept us sub 50, probably two or three years longer than we should have been. And so that meant that we got really spread thin and we under invested in things like customer service. Because I was trying to keep the company really small, because …”
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Asynchronous communication empowers introverted employees and outperforms live meetings
“I believe asynchronous interactions can be far richer than synchronous ones. You unlock the power of the introverts in your company. People for whom, in a real-time meeting, they might hang back a little bit or be shy, or they might need to think about things …”
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Asking what team members need for success empowers them
“It's like, is there anything I can do to help you? Versus What do you need for this to be a success? One is like putting the power with me to help you, and the other is putting the power with you to define what you need, and then I can support that, but ultima…”
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Mullenweg: Transparent meeting notes shrink meeting sizes and boost effectiveness
“If every meeting is transparent and has really good notes, or a recording, people don't feel the need to be there, and so the meeting can be smaller. Which also means it's more effective, where it's like, you know, not everyone is like, ah, I'm not in this mee…”
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Mullenweg: Automattic cut Tumblr's server fleet from 6,000 to 800
“We ended up reducing that to about 800. So we went from 6000 servers to 800 and part of that was, you know, doing a lot of engineering work to bring things on to sort of what we've learned with best practices and being super duper frugal with everything we bui…”
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Automattic started tracking vacation because employees took too little time off
“We used to not track any vacation, or what we call AFK, away from keyboard time, because we have a completely open policy there, take what you want. But the problem was people weren't taking it, so we started tracking it to encourage people to take it, which i…”