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1. #AUTOMATTIC OWNER WORDPRESS APP POCKET CASTS UPDATE#
2. #AUTOMATTIC OWNER WORDPRESS APP POCKET CASTS FULL#

There were some fundamental technology and architectural bets that I think enabled us to win. I don’t know what happened to all of them. Give me an idea of how you guys shifted in focus, because I think a lot of those either got bought up or then. there were a lot of sites like yours in the beginning and I remember looking at all of them and I’m blanking on every single name.Īnd a lot of people thought that business would sort of go away, in a weird way. So even though we are 15 years old and larger than ever, the growth is picking up. Now powers 31 percent of the top websites and is actually accelerating. So, much like any open source natural monopoly, it started to pick up tons of market share.

It was only four years old.Īnd over time, it really became much more of a platform and kind of like a web operating system. Where you could really power robust sites on it. That was around the time that AllThingsD got on it. And it evolved from being just a blogging system to being a CMS. the web standards, we had our early tagline, “Code Is Poetry,” so we attracted a lot of developers. WordPress started as an open source blogging system that myself and some other folks were contributing to, and really started to have some early adoption by people who thought that the web needed something that really. we have many topics.Īnd you’re a very thoughtful person, so it’s gonna be lovely. Explain what WordPress is, where you guys are now as a company, and then I want to get into these purchases you just made and some other.

#AUTOMATTIC OWNER WORDPRESS APP POCKET CASTS UPDATE#

Why don’t we talk and just update people. But let’s give people who don’t know, you were one of the people on the podcast a couple years ago when we were early to the podcast game. And so we’re gonna talk about that, and actually we’ll talk about a little snafu that just happened with it.īut first, we have so much news. Matt Mullenweg: It was one of the first-ever VIP sites in the world. And AllThingsD was on WordPress forever, and so was Recode. It’s also the owner of Longreads and just acquired another media startup, the Atavist. Matt’s company Automattic has 740 employees but no physical office, still. WordPress now powers nearly a third of the websites on the internet. Kara Swisher: In the red chair today is Matt Mullenweg, the co-founder of WordPress.

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Below, we’ve shared a lightly edited transcript of Kara’s full conversation with Mullenweg. You can listen to Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Overcast or wherever you listen to podcasts.