That's because it's not corpospeak, it's Mattospeak.

yawnxyz · 2024-10-03T22:09:59 1727993399

Automattic 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

everfrustrated · 2024-10-03T22:13:24 1727993604

I just twigged the name is AutoMATTic

satvikpendem · 2024-10-06T01:40:02 1728178802

They do have a board, it's just that the board is Matt and his 2 lawyers, lol.

AlchemistCamp · 2024-10-04T00:23:30 1728001410

You "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.

ValentineC · 2024-10-04T00:40:32 1728002432

> 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-dil...

yawnxyz · 2024-10-06T06:41:23 1728196883

I know absolutely nothing about Wordpress or Matt! I'm not much of an internet historian

AlchemistCamp · 2024-10-06T12:39:53 1728218393

Fair 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.