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> I mean what Medium is beside a glorified Wordpress Wordpress (well Automattic) is a >1 bil company, operates about 1/5th of the websites on the internet, spa
by whorleater 10y ago
> I mean what Medium is beside a glorified Wordpress
Wordpress (well Automattic) is a >1 bil company, operates about 1/5th of the websites on the internet, spawned a massive industry (and depending on how you slice it, also a subindustry) that provides jobs for hundreds of thousands of web developers and designers, and greatly shifted the nature of blogging and websites on the internet. So yeah, I'd say if there's a company that claims to displace Wordpress it's not unthinkable for it to raise hundreds of millions.
- wmeredith 10y agoYou're conflating two very different things. WordPress.org is open source software that runs a substantial portion of the modern web and do all those things you say. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging SaaS like Blogger. Medium is a WordPress.com competitor, a very important distinction.
- cowsandmilk 10y agoThe point remains; given the size of Automattic/Wordpress.com, it is very understandable how a wordpress.com competitor founded by the creator of blogger could raise large sums of money.
- battlebot 10y agoNo, it actually boggles my mind, much like how people who create memes somehow make money.