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> "WP Engine can hardly say the same" So much of Automattic's corpospeak drips with spite. Makes me understand why other companies are so "bland" — to protect
by yawnxyz 2y ago
> "WP Engine can hardly say the same"
So much of Automattic's corpospeak drips with spite. Makes me understand why other companies are so "bland" — to protect themselves
- aimazon 2y agoThat's because it's not corpospeak, it's Mattospeak.
- yawnxyz 2y agoAutomattic apparently has 1800 employees (LOL). Surprised they don't have a board, HR, comms, and other teams? Also I realized "Matt" is front and center in Automattic so that says a lot
- satvikpendem 2y agoThey do have a board, it's just that the board is Matt and his 2 lawyers, lol.
- everfrustrated 2y agoI just twigged the name is AutoMATTic
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- AlchemistCamp 2y agoYou "realized"? He built WordPress from the first day. That's why he runs both its non-profit and Automattic, which is named after him. It sounds like you haven't been aware at all about WordPress and suddenly looked up some numbers and imposed traditional company expectations on an open source project with a commercial arm.
- yawnxyz 2y agoI know absolutely nothing about Wordpress or Matt! I'm not much of an internet historian
- AlchemistCamp 2y agoFair enough! Me, neither. I just had a WordPress blog for several years and the back story came up in various announcements in the dashboard news feed.
- ValentineC 2y ago> He built WordPress from the first day. WordPress is a fork of b2/cafelog [1], and arguably wouldn't be where it is today without the initial open source community behind it. [1] https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/the-blogging-software-dilemma/ https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/the-blogging-software-dil...
- legitster 2y ago> From our earliest days, our highest priority has always been our customers. WP Engine can hardly say the same. Does he actually believe this? WP Engine makes some very popular and well-liked products.