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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…
@JosephJacks
October 30, 2024 at 6:14 pm
💙🦾🔥
@ashleyking
October 30, 2024 at 6:36 pm
Please work things out ❤
@ashleyking
October 30, 2024 at 6:37 pm
❤WordPress
@lausianne
November 3, 2024 at 4:03 pm
Yeah, but not Matt at this point.
@ashleyking
October 30, 2024 at 6:38 pm
WordPress Engine
@jeanboriskonan3113
October 30, 2024 at 6:48 pm
That was actually a great interview. Great job, Matt!
@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.
@KT-pi3zg
October 30, 2024 at 7:56 pm
Ass Mullenweg
@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.
@CampanellaFoto
November 1, 2024 at 4:03 am
I think he is aware of that. He has lawyers you know
@nickm1049
November 1, 2024 at 9:29 am
@@CampanellaFotoreally bad ones or they can’t control him, especially in those first few weeks
@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.
@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.
@nickm1049
November 1, 2024 at 9:27 am
Matt started by riling up community members at Wordcamp and for a few weeks that weaponisation of the community seemed to work…until WPE filed the lawsuit and people could read what Matt had done and then he hijacked ACF and lost most of the support imo. Matt seems very much a “do as I say, not as I do” kind of guy
@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.
@MereNiyogKePapa
October 31, 2024 at 4:39 am
Editor woman is clearly wpengine supporter… Especially when she asked “who who is advising you😅😅😅?”
@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.
@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.
@affiliatenerd
November 1, 2024 at 5:20 pm
that type of comment is going to get your WordPress site “hacked” randomly
@celestialnubian
November 1, 2024 at 7:49 pm
@@affiliatenerd That’s why I don’t have my name or company on this account.
@cagsanozbek4210
November 3, 2024 at 10:59 am
What did he do ?
@lausianne
November 3, 2024 at 4:01 pm
@@cagsanozbek4210Google it. Matt caused a major shitstorm.
@visualmodo
October 31, 2024 at 7:22 pm
Very good video!!!
@nickm1049
November 1, 2024 at 9:08 am
WordPress itself is a fork from b2/cafelog….is Matt giving 8% to Michel Valdrighi?
@nickm1049
November 1, 2024 at 9:40 am
“GoDaddy is a WordPress business” 😂😂😂 sure Matt, WP is their main business 🤣 What a disingenuous guy
@nickm1049
November 1, 2024 at 9:43 am
WPE is not talking to the press, because they clearly have good lawyers who tell them to be quiet and deal with it in court, while Matt keeps giving WPE more evidence everytime he gives an interview
@nickm1049
November 1, 2024 at 12:35 pm
Matt The Smiling Extortionist, jeezes dude half an hour of creepy smiling, did you loose all the other human facial expression?😂
@nickm1049
November 1, 2024 at 12:36 pm
Great job by the interviewer
@affiliatenerd
November 1, 2024 at 5:24 pm
How much did Matt pay TechCrunch to make him look like assclown in an interview? lol