Comments on: Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer

By: Workspace

Workspace — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:50:12 +0000

[...] [i] “Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer”, Michael Arrington, October 2007, http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....ion-offer/ [...]

By: The shocking badness of Wordpress.com (and what they should do about it) « Jay by Jay Fresh

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:49:05 +0000

[...] noticed:] Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, turned down a $200m acquisition offer in in the last fortnight. And the traffic is going through the roof. Somebody loves them. This [...]

By: where’s the catch « Bheemboy’s Weblog

where’s the catch « Bheemboy’s Weblog — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:15:35 +0000

[...] about $1.1 million in angel funding. and $ 29.5 million in round B. and before that turns down a $200 million buy-out bid. founder Matt is talking [...]

By: Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table

Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:59:48 +0000

[...] It didn’t make a lot of sense when we heard that Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, turned down a $200 million buyout offer. [...]

By: WordPress stockt auf: 3 GB Speicher und 30 Millionen Dollar Kapital « c/o operative

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:10:01 +0000

[...] und bbPress fließen. So beeindruckend sich die Summe von knapp 30 Millionen Dollar ausnimmt, laut Techcrunch sollen Mullenweg und Co. letztes Jahr ein 200 Millionen Dollar Übernahme Angebot abgelehnt haben. [...]

By: Dario Salvelli’s Blog » Blog Archive » A tutto Wordpress!

Dario Salvelli’s Blog » Blog Archive » A tutto Wordpress! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:56:34 +0000

[...] degli eventi e di come si è sviluppato negli anni Wordpress che rifiutò qualche tempo fa un’offerta di acquisizione di 200 milioni di dollari. A questo punto sarebbe ancora più interessante sentirlo parlare all’I WordCamp di [...]

By: Fresh faces, fresh ideas, the future : AccMan

Fresh faces, fresh ideas, the future : AccMan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:08:57 +0000

[...] Last year it is rumoured to have turned down an offer of $200 million [...]

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De Grote Jaarlijkse DNZM-Verzamelpost - Doe Niet Zo Moeilijk! — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:47:53 +0000

[...] Neem een SixApart, dat in 2005 LiveJournal kocht en dat kortgeleden weer van de hand deed. Neem Automattic, dat naast het bestieren van WordPress.com en blogspamfilter Akismet, Gravatar heeft overgenomen, en waarover de geruchten gaan dat ze onlangs een overnamebod van 200 miljoen dollar hebben afgeslagen. [...]

By: Automattic Rumors, Lorelle Provides WordPress.com News | PHP Podcasts

Automattic Rumors, Lorelle Provides WordPress.com News | PHP Podcasts — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:00:41 +0000

[...] down $200M, receives additional fundingRumors abound surrounding Automattic, Inc. including their turning down US$200 million in acquisition money, the founders receiving US$50 million and Matt Mullenweg’s peculiar jazz-themed home [...]

By: Stanton Champion » Movable Type Now Free - Now What for Six Apart?

Stanton Champion » Movable Type Now Free - Now What for Six Apart? — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:40:00 +0000

[...] all using WordPress as a platform. Automattic just took a $50 million funding round and apparently turned down a $200 million buyout offer not long [...]

By: Diseño Web

Diseño Web — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:57:57 +0000

Opportunities come and go. Its very difficult the born of a new WP competitor, so they guys can say: no thanks.

At the moment.

By: Are you committed to WordPress? Then how do you feel about Automattic?

Are you committed to WordPress? Then how do you feel about Automattic? — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:58:50 +0000

[...] Automattic founders will make a bunch of money from the investors in the company, in response to the turned down $200m buyout offer. Good for Matt & Co. of course, I won’t begrudge anyone making money out of good [...]

By: kuku

kuku — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:38:15 +0000

i glad to hear that

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By: nate

nate — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:00:03 +0000

Wow what a stupid move. When the bubble bursts and that $200 million+ offer doesn’t comes back again Matt might be regretting this move. $200 million for an open source software package is nuts.

By: Jay Fresh

Jay Fresh — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:30:47 +0000

The shocking badness of Wordpress.com (and what they should do about it)…

I host my blog on Wordpress.com. You’re reading it. It’s free, so I guess I should be thankful. But it’s crap.
Maybe it’s my elevated opinions about how much you should get for free these days, and maybe I am wildly cavalier abo…

By: Ed Rickeds

Ed Rickeds — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:20:08 +0000

Every once in a while I am suckered back to the techcrunch site because of an interesting headline, then I remember why I took you out of my RSS reader and can’t stand the site. Why do you publish such crap?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:00:35 +0000

drmike, what you call the “multidatabase code” has been released http://comox.textdrive.com/pip.....12893.html
It’s called Hyperdb and is open source.

By: drmike

drmike — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:34:30 +0000

Lloyd’s comment up there needs a disclaimer as he’s an employee of Automattic. (And they wonder why folks tell them they need an ethics policy…)

Christian Mohn, I don’t know who suggested to you that code goes from WordPress.com to WordPress on a case by case basic. That just isn’t true.

Um, excuse me but it is true. A lot of the code used on wp.com is not released as Open Source. The multidatabase code, the sitewide tag solution, the tag surfer, the recent news code, etc has not been brought oveer to the wordpress/ wpmu code.

All WordPress members benefit from WordPress.com and Automattic’s successes.

*snort*

By: publicidad en internet

publicidad en internet — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:31:07 +0000

Wordpress is a world wide leader blog platform and the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award confirms that. Its not strange that automattic receives an Acquisition Offer, automattic worths much more than 200 millions.

By: Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:26:05 +0000

Good work Matt. Don’t sell!

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:04:18 +0000

I don’t know anything about an acquisition offer.

Our success so far is indeed a great confirmation to a business with open source participation at its core.

Christian Mohn, I don’t know who suggested to you that code goes from WordPress.com to WordPress on a case by case basic. That just isn’t true. In fast that would be stupid of us, as it would create maintenance burden and risk code quality.

The business side is all to do with the execution. Anyone with the knowledge, experience, passion and dedication our team has could do the same thing. It is all about the execution, and I’m very happy that I work with the very best.

Could we do it without the WordPress.org community? Who knows, but many members of the team wouldn’t be interested in finding out. Myself and many members of the team wouldn’t sleep well if we didn’t feel we were living up to our potential in trying to influence the world to move towards free culture.

All WordPress members benefit from WordPress.com and Automattic’s successes.

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:39:42 +0000

I don’t know why every time there’s a talk about WordPress.com, people say “I love WordPress.org” - these are two different things. Most people use WordPress.org source code, not because it’s the best open-source blogging platform, but because it has the richest variety of themes and pluggins. But people are talking about forking WordPress not for pure technology reasons, but mostly because they can’t live with Matt Mullenweg’s attitude and approaches.

I didn’t want to bring this up again, but here on this blog a couple of months ago I uncovered some facts about Matt & his gangs’ approaches. Namely, an Automattic employee has stolen my username and blog at WordPress and the using information I put in my WordPress.com account, tried to hijack other accounts with other services. Then, being pressed by their own FAQ, Automattic changed their ToS and FAQ overnight and then said to all of us: What are you guys talking about? A few people used web caching services to prove that Automattic changed their legal terms overnight to cover things up.

This is the type of attitude that WordPress.org contributors cannot live with. Not to mention previous tricks Matt used to bring traffic to his own blog and so on.

By: Aaron R.

Aaron R. — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:45:42 +0000

Don’t forget about Yahoo’s recent $300M purchase of the open source collaboration solution - Zimbra!

By: SmoothSpan Blog

SmoothSpan Blog — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:23:03 +0000

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