Automattic

“Our culture suffered. Like we were not as productive during COVID. People thought, oh, this must be, I had other CEOs. This must be great. You just, you're, you must be running at full speed. I'm like, no, I hired 1200 people the past year that have, the past …”

“I think you just gotta pick a big mission. We started in In 2003 to democratize publishing. And so that was broad enough that we've been able to stay at that and it's banded and it's evolved over time, of course, like what it means to publish has evolved over …”

“The WordPress ecosystem, I would estimate to be about ten billion dollars per year.”

“Tumblr is not running on WordPress yet, but it will. So we're going to switch Tumblr to be powered by WordPress.”

“And so to be honest, the code was not good. And so like the first couple of times we looked at it, we decided not to buy it because the code was so bad. But at some point, like we're like, they've really figured out something with the users. That's resonating.…”

“Automatic is a very closely held stock. It's basically our employees and a few dozen of the most sophisticated investors in the world.”

“We went into commerce with WooCommerce. Let's democratize commerce. And we have now an open source Shopify, which is our, now our largest business. It's a growing like a weed.”

“One thing that we launched last year was a 100 year plan. Yeah. So you could subscribe to a hundred year hosting plan.”

“The rest is that help the host. So they cannot preference part of the rules. They can't reference WordPress.com over any other host in the world. WordPress.com gets access to all the same code APIs, everything that everyone else does.”

“I tell all my shareholders, like, if you ever want to sell a share, I'm your man. I don't know what the price is, but I don't want to lock them up.”