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Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Tumblr and other web-publishing and commerce products built largely on the open-source WordPress software.
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🔥 BIG NEWS: I’m joining @Automattic 🚀 I’ll be joining the @WordPress DevRel team, at the heart of OSS, around a project that powers over 43% of the web. Very excited to work with the amazing minds behind @WordPress, @beeper, @tumblr, and more 🥹 ✨ Let’s build together!
Six months of salary. That's what Matt Mullenweg offered every Automattic employee to resign if they didn't believe in the company's direction. About 9% took the offer and left.
Today's my last day as Head of AI at Automattic, and Core AI lead for WordPress. Shocking to think it's been only 18 months since the WPAI acquisition. https://t.co/byriJVp0l3 So much has happened. We formed Core AI for @WordPress, built the AI Building Blocks (the last ships in 7.0), grew Automattic AI from from ~10 folks to 50+, and #core-ai went from 0 to 1,000+. @automattic shipped AI site builders, built-in agents, Telex, agentic commerce in Woo, Parsely Sage, MCPs… an incredible group to get to work with each day, async or in the NoHo space.
After years building in WordPress, I'm thrilled to join Automattic and lead Jetpack. It's powerful, sometimes misunderstood, and full of opportunity. Can't wait to get started. Read more 👇 #WordPress https://t.co/pVlVFHukrq
Excited to share that @stephen_wolfram has joined as a special advisor to @automattic. https://t.co/bEycaL94hE
There are some very fun things happening with @automattic's Telex for @WordPress: https://t.co/aTmm7Hay3b
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