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Does anyone else see a misalignment between the $3B valuation and the huge impact Wordpress has had on the internet? 1/3 of all websites are powered by Wordpres
by AznHisoka 7y ago
Does anyone else see a misalignment between the $3B valuation and the huge impact Wordpress has had on the internet? 1/3 of all websites are powered by Wordpress, yet they seem to be valued low compared to other tech companies.
- helpPeople 7y agoOpen source has massive benefits. WordPress would be nothing if it was closed off. But open source also means users can fork if the company sucks.
- tyingq 7y agoPretty sure the vast majority of those WordPress sites bring them no revenue.
- johnward 7y agoSince when has valuation been based on revenue? :)
- buboard 7y agoau contraire, i bet wordpress users make a lot more revenue than SV combined (not a high bar - most SV startups lose money)
- badrequest 7y agoThey don't make that revenue on behalf of the folks who make Wordpress, necessarily
- lexapro 7y agoI'm sure Apple alone has more revenue than all wordpress sites combined. And you can have a lot of revenue while losing money.
- buboard 7y agoYes of course, i should have said “their competitors in sv” Woocommerce users apparently make $10b in revenue, and i doubt they lose much, after all it s free
- tyingq 7y agoRight, but they probably get close to zero from the self-hosted WordPress users. The revenue is from people paying WordPress.com to host their sites. That's the number of users that's relevant, and it's a much smaller number. The self-hosted users that are the majority don't count for much.
- user5994461 7y agoAll these sites get ads that should make a ton of revenues for WordPress.
- hobofan 7y agoThe less value you capture as tech provider, the more value is captured by your customers and allows them to strive, so it makes a lot of sense to me.
- buboard 7y agoTheir product is not their stock, it's their code.
- 013a 7y agoLinux powers most of the web servers on the internet. The Linux Foundation is not worth billions of dollars. All of those servers run on Intel chips. Maybe some AMD. Even combined, companies like Google and Amazon, who would be nothing without those chips, are worth more than the companies that make their chips. And electricity! Our electric companies aren't worth a penny compared to these huge tech companies. That's strange. They wouldn't even be able to see, let alone run their computers, without the electric company.
- goatinaboat 7y agoThe Linux Foundation is not worth billions of dollars IBM paid billions of dollars for Red Hat.
- jononor 7y agoAnd most of the webservers on the Internet does not run Redhat.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoa billion used to mean something, once upon a time.
- csomar 7y agoMy understanding is that Automattic owns WordPress.com and not WordPress.org. i.e: You can be in Automattic business and make a dev team larger than them that develop the core WordPress. They don't rule WordPress the open source product but just are a company that made it.
- srbby 7y agoInteresting that "whois wordpress.org" doesn't show who owns it.
- TotempaaltJ 7y agoIt's the WordPress foundation. It's on Wikipedia.
- mitchdoogle 7y agoUsage doesn't mean much if you don't have the users' data.