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Matt Mullenweg: The Future of WordPress and the Web | TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of WordPress, the ubiquitous open source platform powering much of the web. He’s also CEO of Automattic, which was valued at $7.5 billion in its most recent funding round. Mullenweg will join us to discuss his founder journey and where WordPress and the web go next. #TechCrunchDisrupt2024 #Technology #Startups Subscribe for…

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  1. @JosephJacks

    October 30, 2024 at 6:14 pm

    💙🦾🔥

  2. @ashleyking

    October 30, 2024 at 6:36 pm

    Please work things out ❤

  3. @ashleyking

    October 30, 2024 at 6:37 pm

    ❤WordPress

  4. @ashleyking

    October 30, 2024 at 6:38 pm

    WordPress Engine

  5. @jeanboriskonan3113

    October 30, 2024 at 6:48 pm

    That was actually a great interview. Great job, Matt!

  6. @spacedumpster

    October 30, 2024 at 7:19 pm

    22:09 The idea of a single “leaker” rather than multiple whistleblowers who care deeply about open source and WordPress is a laughable interpretation.

    • @davelockie9184

      October 31, 2024 at 6:31 am

      There was a self-confessed leaker and leaks have noticeably reduced since their departure.

  7. @KT-pi3zg

    October 30, 2024 at 7:56 pm

    Ass Mullenweg

  8. @stevestruemph

    October 30, 2024 at 8:23 pm

    Welp. Some of this interview will make it into the case as evidence. What a mess. Matt, no one is making me disagree with you. I just do because you’re wrong.

    • @areimann

      October 31, 2024 at 10:53 am

      I think Matt has a valid point, if you’re benefiting from WordPress, give back in some way. But to force a company to give back, that’s against the spirit of open source.

  9. @EmilyRose0

    October 30, 2024 at 10:48 pm

    She asked if he sold the shares in WP-Engine unwillingly. He said “yeah …”. Just curious if that is how it works, I doubt it. He was FORCED to sell the shares? I was more or less in his side until the takeover of the ACF slug. But I also did not know how big and powerful he actually was and how he has set himself up as a dictator in the WP ecosystem and that his company is funded by Black Rock …

    I admire how Ghost is setup, its 100% non-profit. The way it should be.

    • @davelockie9184

      October 31, 2024 at 6:30 am

      From what I understand, minority shareholders typically have drag/tag along clauses. Worth reading up on if you want to understand that dynamic.

      Blackrock are a minority shareholder and don’t have voting rights; that’s a pretty big difference to their control over WPE.

  10. @maxziebell4013

    October 31, 2024 at 12:40 am

    Interesting interview… Did they try to rile up their customers? For me, it felt the other way around because the community was dragged into this and asked to vote with their wallets and so forth. However, I am not a WP customer (at least directly, but indirectly as I own ACF Pro bought from Elliot), nor do I subscribe to any WP Engine newsletters or anything, so maybe I missed those attempts.

  11. @larap.1850

    October 31, 2024 at 3:10 am

    Ha! I myself thought that WP Engine was WordPress. I’ve always been so confused about it. I have to say that hearing this interview, in spite of (what I thought was) bias towards WPEngine on the part of the interviewer, I’m solidly in support of WordPress. You go, Matt! The time for vulture companies preying on others must come to an end.

    • @MereNiyogKePapa

      October 31, 2024 at 4:40 am

      Your salary from Automattic is already credited. Stop bullshitting

    • @lightningrodofh8509

      October 31, 2024 at 9:36 am

      What are you even talking about?

      Matt is clearly just another sleazy CEO trying to make more money.

      I can’t wait to hear this interview played in court.

  12. @MereNiyogKePapa

    October 31, 2024 at 4:39 am

    Editor woman is clearly wpengine supporter… Especially when she asked “who who is advising you😅😅😅?”

  13. @davidcoveney

    October 31, 2024 at 4:53 am

    So wait a sec…Matt was an investor in WPEngine, was apparently open about it, profited personally from the returns and the exit, but it wasn’t enough so more is wanted to go into his private equity firm and not the actual project.

    I’d love to know what Richard Stallman thinks.

  14. @celestialnubian

    October 31, 2024 at 4:46 pm

    Matt is the surface level smiling nice guy who is really a snake in his heart. The damage that he’s done to the wordpress community in the past month is incalculable.

  15. @visualmodo

    October 31, 2024 at 7:22 pm

    Very good video!!!

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