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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where WordPress comes up
1255 How This 27 Year Old Went from $0 to $70k in MRR in 6 months
- ▶ 1:27 Nathan Latka Coming from a business family, entrepreneurship was rooted in his blood, and at the age of 18, he launched his first WordPress security plugin that did six figures, after which he launched PowerUp Hosting in 2012, which is now an ISP and a…
1248 Bootstrapped Appointment Scheduling Tool Hits $1m ARR
- ▶ 10:15 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1242 How AdRoll Launched New RollWorks Product, Added $2m in ARR in 4 Months
- ▶ 9:52 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1232 I should have sold my first company sooner, now LeadDyno $1m+
- ▶ 5:54 Brett Owens So from the Shopify, as I mentioned, BigCommerce, WordPress, WooCommerce, uh, those types of, those types of app stores.
1225 Enterprise Management Company Alfresco Passes $100M ARR, IPO Next?
- ▶ 10:35 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR
- ▶ 9:31 Nikos Moraitakis We just really put the WordPress ad out there and just put them there with no organization or nothing.
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend
- ▶ 10:30 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1212 Chatbot company SmartAssistant: We'll pass $50m in next few quarters
- ▶ 11:12 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1203 SEMRush to hit $80m ARR This Year, Here's How
- ▶ 14:04 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1200 How He Got First 250 Customers, $65k in MRR from South Africa HQ
- ▶ 8:56 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1184 California Mom Bootstraps HR Tech to $5m in ARR
- ▶ 12:29 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1177 Then Turn Your Customers into Advocates, North of $12m in ARR
- ▶ 13:07 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1167 How FloQast Grew 300% YoY to $8m ARR Selling to Accounting Teams
- ▶ 12:08 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
- ▶ 14:31 Josh Montgomery WordPress, the open source alternative is now dominates the market in mobile.
- ▶ 14:56 Nathan Latka I mean, look, we had Matt on the show and he admitted, I mean, the most difficult thing for him at WordPress was convincing, you know, when his community saw on tech crunch WordPress, you know, WordPress passes a hundred million revenue… 2 times in the scene
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"
- ▶ 2:05 Zach Rosen So we are a website operations platform for WordPress and Drupal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:33 Zach Rosen So we were the only ones who have a, uh, a multi-tenant, um, operations platform for Drupal and WordPress, where we can scale you really smoothly in containers from a tiny website that, that pays, you know,
- ▶ 12:48 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1153 We just passed $4m in ARR, considering a raise for CPG CRM tool
- ▶ 15:36 Alan Bonde Uh, personally, I like WordPress. 3 times in the scene
1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo
- ▶ 15:51 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
1146 How Joomla Pays Bills With $0 Revenue, Opensourced
- ▶ 1:53 Robert Jacobi So Joomla is an open source project, uh, for content management systems, so it's comparable to WordPress or Drupal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:49 Nathan Latka And he articulated kind of how hard it was to take WordPress, which was open source and really commercialize on top of it and how much he was kind of judged from the community and how he, how he managed that transition. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:40 Robert Jacobi So we are a support company that does automatic updates for Joomla and WordPress websites. 2 times in the scene
1140 I only work 17 hours per week, don't trust Google, and make $1.7m+
- ▶ 4:38 John Jonas Like, uh, WordPress. 3 times in the scene
1138 Goldman almost sold us for $12m, thankfully it failed
- ▶ 8:27 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
1135 This app lets you use real money to compete with your friends in crypto, stocks
- ▶ 16:17 Thomas Beattie Ooh, uh, I have to say WordPress.
1121 Webinar King? "We grew 180% yoy Bootstrapped to $7.1m in ARR"
- ▶ 15:07 Omar Zenhom We have a lot of people changing our images, sourcing images, getting all that stuff cleaned up, and obviously populating it in WordPress.
1097 CMS CEO: How to Move 1 Time License Model doing $1.5m Annually to SaaS
- ▶ 3:36 Nathan Latka And why are people picking, I mean, when people think CMS that are listening to my show, I think most of them will immediately just think WordPress, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:35 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
- ▶ 14:06 Nathan Latka Why will developers be incentivized to build for your plug-in store when you serve a relatively small market of 6000 compared to like a WordPress? developers 2 times in the scene
1092 Why Chef Creator Raised $30m to Replace Walkie Talkies
- ▶ 16:02 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1091 Founded in 1999, How He's Managed a 20+ Year "Overnight Success"
- ▶ 9:10 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
1090 CEO Eating Own Dog Food for $25m Revenue, $5.5m Gross Profit, $3m Net
- ▶ 11:56 Chris Ingham Brooke Um, obviously WordPress has got, uh, some APIs also. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:57 Chris Ingham Brooke Uh, so we, we just use WordPress to create the, uh, create the content.
1087 Yeah I'd sell (Live negotiation)
- ▶ 9:24 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1086 Sales outreach tool hits $1.2m ARR, would you sell for $4m? No!
- ▶ 11:50 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
1082 Why Public Sizmek Went Private to Fuel Growth via M&A in Buy Side Programmatic Space
- ▶ 10:38 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
1078 How agile content marketing solution Turtl hit $125k/mo
- ▶ 9:04 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1077 We Bootstrapped Our Way to $2m in ARR, Now $10m ARR
- ▶ 8:30 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
1074 I left Wall Street trenches to do Email Business Intelligence
- ▶ 8:32 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1073 Are 5 Companies at Once Too Many?
- ▶ 9:48 Nathan Latka You have to dabble around in WordPress.
1068 SiteCake: We Rely on Whitelabel Partners With Unique Kickback Structure
- ▶ 0:58 Nathan Latka He's an entrepreneur coming from the design and advertising background, and with this company, it's obviously a WordPress for static websites.
- ▶ 2:07 Nikola Mirčić It's like WordPress, you know. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:56 Nikola Mirčić So they don't need old bells and whistles of WordPress or, or, you know,
1067 Vero CEO: "We're API Driven Email Marketing" with $150k+ in MRR
- ▶ 10:53 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1061 We serve 2b impressions a day including MSN homepage
- ▶ 9:26 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1055 Utah CEO: We've Doubled YoY to $10m in ARR
- ▶ 9:35 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1049 We're Bootstrapped And Doubling Revenue YoY, Past $8m ARR
- ▶ 16:41 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1043 HR Tech CEO: I accidently raised $3m!
- ▶ 12:05 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1038 How Prezly Bootstrapped To $1.6m+ in ARR
- ▶ 2:18 Gijs Nelissen Connecting their content with, uh, the right stakeholder is, like, what the platform helps you to do, and so, like, to put it in more, like, uh, to compare it to something else, it's kind of like a combination of a CRM, CRM built for PR,…
- ▶ 6:51 Gijs Nelissen So you could say like, maybe like a best way to put it would be like a mini WordPress site or a medium, a medium posting or something like where they can publish all their news.
1036 How He Took SMB Churn From 12% Monthly to 4% In Social Media Marketing Space
- ▶ 10:21 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1024 How He Bought Out His VC's, Won His Company Back, Now Doing $24m Annually
- ▶ 10:42 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1018 Why He's Making Leap from AdTech to Data As A Service Business Model
- ▶ 11:07 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1012 SquareSpace CEO Tried Acquiring First, Now King of SMB Data
- ▶ 9:39 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
1000 The Genius in Agency + SaaS Business Model
- ▶ 8:13 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
994 Why Forbes Uses Quizzes Instead of "Opt In Landing Pages"
- ▶ 8:18 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
988 Livechat on Website Wars
- ▶ 7:07 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
982 Marketing and Sales Tech? He'll Acquire You!
- ▶ 13:40 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
981 The Problem With 100% MarketShare
- ▶ 2:22 Erica Brescia For an application, it might be, uh, WordPress or Drupal if they're used to, um, developing like a blog or a website, and obviously we also package up, uh, development tools and environments like GitLab and Jenkins and Node and, and Rails. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:56 Erica Brescia It's, you know, if it was all WordPress, which it's definitely not, but it would be a million different instantiations of the WordPress application. 2 times in the scene
977 How Mindtouch Landed $1m+ Customers, $7m ARR Bootstrapped, Now $20m+
- ▶ 5:42 Nathan Latka The reason I'm asking is because I just had Matt Mullen went on from WordPress and it was so tough for him to manage monetizing open source in terms of his cred and his cool factor with the development community.
969 How Scribd Passed $54m in ARR Building Netflix for Books
- ▶ 8:12 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
963 How Ping Identity Moved $75m One Time Revenue to $100m+ Recurring and Sold for $600m in 2016
- ▶ 11:18 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
957 Why He's Moving from Self Serve to $3k/yr Plans in Recruiting Space
- ▶ 11:18 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold
- ▶ 12:14 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
947 Is He The New King of Education? 80k Student Customers and $24m in Revenue Says "Yes!"
- ▶ 13:50 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
941 From Affiliate Marketer to $150k MRR SaaS Entrepreneur
- ▶ 10:29 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast
- ▶ 12:56 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
933 Why Wordpress CEO Raised $300m, Replaced Himself, and New Gutenberg
- ▶ 0:51 Nathan Latka He is the co-founder of the open source blogging platform WordPress, the most popular publishing platform on the web, and the founder and CEO of Automatic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Jetpack.
- ▶ 1:32 Nathan Latka When people think about Automatic and they think about WordPress, how should they think about the relationship between the two? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:40 Nathan Latka Uh, if you don't know, obviously, uh, WordPress, uh, we'll learn more about it today, but also with Matt, we're going to touch a bit on his new project Gutenberg, which was released earlier this year as part of WordPress. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:14 Nathan Latka When did you launch WordPress? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:13 Matt Mullenweg Uh, the post numbers can get kind of thrown off a lot by, you know, kind of the outliers, um, or major publications, which use WordPress quite a bit. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Nathan Latka Now, are they part of your VIP? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:36 Matt Mullenweg So, uh, the three main things people subscribe to are wordpress.com, which is hosting for WordPress, and Jetpack, which is services for WordPress if you host it someplace else, like, uh, could be Bluehost or GoDaddy or Rackspace or…
- ▶ 10:44 Nathan Latka But Tony, who was the CEO running, uh, automatic or WordPress for a while, uh, shared an interview that you guys, I believe it was in 20, was it, was it 2012 or 20, uh, 14, you guys passed, I think, forty five million in, in revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:58 Matt Mullenweg And if you add that up with the other people working on WordPress at GoDaddy and Bluehost, I mean, you get into the many, many thousands. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:38 Matt Mullenweg And we just wanted to make something core WordPress that really made it easy for everyone to do this. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:34 Matt Mullenweg And WordPress, I think, was one of the first large, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:29 Matt Mullenweg So, but it's definitely, you know, email for me is, um, it's since it's generally external and I prioritize WordPress and automatically,
- ▶ 34:51 Matt Mullenweg What I also like about it would be that, you know, WordPress has a huge ecosystem. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:20 Nathan Latka Through subscriptions to their hosting provider, also their VIP plan.
929 MuleSoft 2.0? Passes $40m in ARR Integration Platform as a Service
- ▶ 8:37 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
923 He's Doing $10m-$30m in ARR Between Adtech and SaaS
- ▶ 11:51 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
916 SaaS: Y Combinator QA Company Passes $12m+ in ARR After Graham Shits on Name
- ▶ 15:01 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
910 Sales Call Technology On How To Sign 1000+ Seat Accounts, Pass $24m in ARR
- ▶ 12:16 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
904 5 Revenue Streams of Financial Services Business Makes Founder $7.5m Annually
- ▶ 10:07 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
898 SaaS: SnapApp Lands Amazon as Customer, Passes $8m in ARR
- ▶ 14:35 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.
893 SaaS: How Zapier Passed 60k Paid Seats and $20m in ARR
- ▶ 1:39 Wade Foster We had built like a PayPal QuickBooks integration, we built like a WordPress Salesforce thing, and Brian figured, hey, we can abstract this, build an off-the-shelf tool that lets people connect this app to that app without having to hire…
892 SaaS: How he Sold 80,000 Seats at $10 a pop
- ▶ 8:45 Nathan Latka I used their free website builder to get the site up because it's ideal for WordPress.