Comments on: Automattic Founders To Take Big Money Off The Table

By: AmaliaMendos

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By: Automattic Lands Massive $29.5M for WordPress, Other Products

Automattic Lands Massive $29.5M for WordPress, Other Products — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:47:49 +0000

[...] As we speculated, Automattic, provider of the WordPress open-source blogging software and spam filter Akismet, has raised $29.5M in a Series B round of financing led by Polaris Ventures (which put in $20 million of the $29.5 million). Other participants in the round include The New York Times, True Ventures, and Radar Ventures. [...]

By: Le Blogueur » Blog Archive » Automattic boucle un tour énorme de $29.5 millions pour WordPress et d’autres produits

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:46:00 +0000

[...] l’avait anticipé, Automattic, le concepteur de la plateforme open source de blog Wordpress (que nous utilisons pour [...]

By: Open Source vs. Microsoft » Siusic Dot Com

Open Source vs. Microsoft » Siusic Dot Com — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:52:22 +0000

[...] company that makes WordPress, the software that lead me to the open source world, was that they were working on their IPO and rejected a buy out offer in 200 millions. Imagine if you are working for a company like this. You can be as young as Matt Mullenweg and [...]

By: drmike

drmike — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:01:25 +0000

Maybe they’ll take some of that new money and put it towards customer service and ethics training.

By: Jesse Gardner

Jesse Gardner — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:15:01 +0000

> Open source rulez!

Too bad it can’t spell.

By: dev

dev — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:54:46 +0000

Wordpress is a slap in the face of enterprise CMS. Talk about the quality of what passion can do vs what $$$ can do…

Open source rulez!

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:30:08 +0000

Wordpress and those of it’s ilk are content management and publishing platforms that support a entire ecosystem (ye gads, did I just say that?) of add-ons.

To Get a web publishing tool of any kind to do what WP does used to take a lot of work. It’s a well executed system. The industry has come a long way.

Wordpress, MT, and others are good for more than blogging; in some cases, they can be drop in replacements for Enterprise Document Management systems.

By: PJ

PJ — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:22:43 +0000

Lately I’m asking what is Wordpress? Since I spend so much time tweaking it.

To me it’s mostly about managing comments, which it doesn’t do well if you get a lot of comments. And it makes your RSS feed for you, big deal.

Other than that, ask yourself what Wordpress does for you? Take a look at this page: header, content, sidebar, next/previous links, which you could have done in Frontpage in the 90s. The only complex element here is the comment system, that’s where the money is, IMHO.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:25:04 +0000

Congrats to the guys at Wordpress – great products deserve great rewards.

By: J.P.

J.P. — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:56:13 +0000

Yes Thomas, you´re the only one.

Sorry mate.

By: Odelbee

Odelbee — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:07:58 +0000

WordPress founder to use million-dollar trumpet as fruit bowl…

Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of the open-source WordPress blogging software, last night celebrated a $25 million “bonus” from investors by purchasing a $1 million Louis Armstrong trumpet, which he plans to use as a fruit bowl.
Jazz nut Ma…

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:42:44 +0000

am i the only one who still favors textpattern for sake of performance and flexibility?

By: Automattic Cash « Changing Way

Automattic Cash « Changing Way — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:37:07 +0000

[...] 14th, 2007 Michael Arrington has heard that Automattic has been offered a new round of financing. Most of it will go to the founders. Most of how much? Up to $50M. Michael doesn’t identify [...]

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:10:20 +0000

oops I mean :

Risk taker, Caretaker, surgeon, Undertaker!!!

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:09:14 +0000

Risktaker Surgeon Undertaker (the four types of leadership).

The leadership team at Automattic have crossed the Rubicon to being good stewards of a hot product and company. Wow.

If only this kind of sober leadership would prevail…..do you think this had anything to do with the tractable, sober, innovative, and value rich attributes that is everything Wordpress?

And, are most flips the seed of recognition that what was sowed is rotten at the core – often to late and to subtly for even the most discerning VC;s to estimate?

And we give private equity investors WAY too much credit for being Delphic, if the horrible mistakes currently being made in the funding of incessantly redundant business plans and models are any indication.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:15:58 +0000

Firstly, WordPress is incredible!

Secondly, the tide is turning. I’m very happy for the founders of WordPress. There is a VC shake out coming and the next economic expansion cycle for the VC’s will be more of “pay to play”.

By: Alex Williams

Alex Williams — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:14:46 +0000

Now that makes more sense. Turning down $200 million just did not add up, especially considering the people involved. Kudos to the founders if this all works out. I remember hearing Matt say once that starting a business is full of excitement and attention. But the hardest part is after the glow subsides. That’s when you have to keep your head down and serve your customers well. Matt always has always been passionate about serving his customers. And it really made his business work.

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:47:35 +0000

I had a couple of BAD experiences where the carrot never turned into a reality (I really wanted to use a different set of words not exactly of the right tone to describe the carrot and where it got stuck); so it brings hope to my when something like this happens. Yes, financially savvy 100% but also, take care of your team. I am glad for the founders. Congrats.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:45:27 +0000

Wordpress is a fantastic platform, well deserved cash-out! I look forward to seeing what happens now with the platform though, as many volunteers and an entire open source community has helped get this system to where it is now. I wonder if they will stick around… that is the far bigger question yet to be answered.

Jon

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:29:23 +0000

yeah, this certainly appears to be a financially savvy move to me.

By: David Ulevitch

David Ulevitch — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:23:31 +0000

Good for Matt. And good for the investors to step in and keep their goals with the founders aligned.

Don’t forget that Toni isn’t just CEO, but he’s also a partner at True Ventures and (one would presume) financially savvy.