New WordPress.com Dashboard Live !
I’m writing this post from the all new WordPress.com dashboard. If you are on WordPress.com, go check it out. For those of you on self-hosted WordPress, the new UI will be part of the 2.7 release...
View ArticleWorking Automattic Style
Great piece in this month’s Inc. magazine by Matt: “The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg”: I travel a lot, but when I’m in San Francisco, I usually work from home. Everyone else works from home, too. We’re a...
View ArticleDataSF.org
We (Automattic) hosted an event today with Mayor Gavin Newsom for the beta launch of DataSF.org. Really smart initiative around providing public data to the citizens of San Francisco: The new web site...
View ArticleVideo: Matt Mullenweg on KTEH “This is Us!”
Great interview with Matt Mullenweg on KTEH “This is Us!”: Worth watching — and look out for yours truly who can be seen from various angles in this short 5 minute video :)Filed under: automattic,...
View Article5 Years at Automattic
Thanks to my wonderful colleague Mo who reminded that I’ve now been @ Automattic for 5 years ! I can’t imagine having a better job and a better set of colleagues to work with — I’m looking forward to...
View ArticleUSC Talk & a surprise about Snapchat usage
I gave a talk at USC earlier this week about Automattic and WordPress — something I’ve done for 3 years in a row now. It’s always a ton of fun, and I make sure to do a survey (by show of hands) each...
View ArticleTiger Global invests in Automattic
We shared some exciting news today that Tiger Global has made a $50mm investment in Automattic. From our CEO Toni Tiger Global has recently invested over $50M in Automattic secondary stock purchases....
View ArticleA book about WordPress.com: The Year Without Pants
Scott Berkun, a former colleague of mine, has published a very interesting book about his time at Automattic / WordPress.com – and how we work in our flat and distributed way. The book is called The...
View ArticleAutomattic Series C
We announced some funding news today – so no need to keep reading those rumor based posts :) Here are the official details from our CEO, Matt Mullenweg: I’ll start with the big stuff: Automattic is...
View ArticleThanks Automattic, Hello Resolute Ventures
In many ways, the number seven holds special value. It’s a lucky number in various cultures, the number of days in a week, plays a role in agriculture and crop rotation, and it’s said that your...
View ArticleOffice Work VS Distributed Work? Neither. Go Hybrid.
I originally drafted this post back in January 2015. Like many of you, I have a ton of posts in drafts that I just never got around to publishing. Having worked at Automattic in the past where we were...
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