Fireside chat with Ma.tt Mullenweg
summary
WordPress hits 43% of the web after 21 years, with the WordPress Foundation holding the trademark and Automattic running wordpress.org; a legal fight with WP Engine and Silver Lake leads to WP Engine being blocked from wordpress.org updates, a public tracker mapping ~800,000 WP Engine sites and showing ~16,000 migrations so far, and WP Engine suing first. Advanced Custom Fields gets forked into Secure Custom Fields to patch vulnerabilities, 159 Automattic staff accept exit packages, and core contributors like the WPGraphQL author move into the community.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Early life and inspirations
- 2:30The birth of WordPress
- 6:37The philosophy of open source
- 10:29Building the community
- 15:28Founding Automattic
- 21:14Scaling and venture capital
- 27:21Organizational structure
- 36:09Conflict with WP Engine
- 43:53The legal and public battle
- 51:51Restructuring and mission
- 55:02Current battles and legacy
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