Q Matt, did you ever have a, did you ever have a stint in San Francisco? Was there ever a point where you moved the company in San Francisco? Cause I do remember. A, um, presence, a big automatic presence, uh, like on the bay somewhere.
A Yeah. So my story, I, I had, um, gone to University of Houston for two years, and then, uh, a company called CNET paid me to drop out, move to San Francisco in 2004. So this is about year, year and a half after WordPress started, but about a year before I found the company and definitely, you know, part of founding the company was going out there. It was amazing for me to meet people and be influenced and like, San Francisco is definitely where my tribe was. You know, people who are passionate about building the web, passionate about technology. So I still love San Francisco. Like I think I'm the last one. Like I spend time there. My mom's out there right now. Like I, I actually really love San Francisco. So, and we, uh, at first had like a desk in our investor's office. So true ventures had a spot on peer 38. Um, You know, Instagram was upstairs. There was, it was a fun spot. And, um, and then later that expanded, that office next door came available. So we, we had it, but it was always like a lounge. Like we've never actually ever done permanent desk or places, but we did want a place for people to get together and to host community events and to do WordPress meetups. And so, like, I'm a big believer in in-person and physical space. A big part of automatic culture is actually meetups where we would bring either the whole company or teams together a few times a year. But it ju…
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