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Mullenweg: Competing for SF Talent Was Fishing in a Small Pond
“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 just felt like the best, most talent in the world was not in…”
Mullenweg: Automattic pays identical salaries regardless of employee geography
“So something we didn't do when we started, but we switched in like, was paying the same salaries regardless of geography, right? It's the same work. It's the same job. You're creating the same value for the company and the and the customers. So you should make…”
Mullenweg: Marc and Ben's public writing disrupted the VC model for a16z
“What would Andreessen Horowitz be without Mark's seminal essays and Ben's amazing books and essays, you know, like Their writing is part of how they disrupted the VC model and became Andres and Horowitz, which now we take for granted.”
Mullenweg: Team time zone differences should not exceed seven to eight hours
“I think for teams, it's good to be in a range. I'm actually okay with a range of up to seven or eight hours, so like Europe and US is okay, because you can still overlap for an hour to a day, and that's usually plenty. If you need a lot more, you're probably h…”
Mullenweg: 55% of Tumblr users are under 24 and 85% on mobile
“It is majority. So 55% under 24 and under. So it's a young blogging network, which is neat. It's different than WordPress's demographics. It's primarily mobile. 85% of mobile. It's still doing tens of thousands of signups per day.”
Mullenweg: I Personally Took Over as Tumblr CEO in February 2022
“And actually, you know, some news as of February first, I'm running it personally. So I'm day to day running Tumblr as CEO working on the product, working on the design, working on the tech, working on everything.”