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Tag: automattic

  • Automattic at 20

    Automattic turned 20 this year. That alone is worth celebrating — it’s rare for a tech company to make it this far, let alone one that’s been fully distributed from day one. For me, it’s also a personal milestone: I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last 16 of those 20 years working to make the web a better place. I joined in 2009 after meeting a group of talented folks on the internet (as one did in those days), then somehow found myself at Matt’s house for a WordPress “upgrade party.” That was the beginning — I never imagined…

  • Remote Work At Scale

    COVID-19 (aka coronavirus) has many companies suddenly experimenting with remote work for the first time. I tweeted yesterday that unfortunately people are likely to have a pretty rough time due to the rushed nature of the experiment, and some folks asked if I could expand on that, so here we are. There are already a bunch of write-ups, resources, and tools if you look around (including one from our CEO Matt, and this great webinar-format session from Cate and Nicole), so it’s worth getting other views and ideas as well. We’ll look at some concepts that I think underpin successful…