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Matt Is Influential

October 1, 2008

BusinessWeek has listed Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg as one of the top 25 most influential people on the web due to the viral growth of the open source movement and the popularity of the WordPress blogging platform.



Automattic Acquires IntenseDebate

September 24, 2008

Comments are an integral part of blogging. IntenseDebate has created a great commenting system with superior comment flow, management, tracking, and organization. Matt, Toni, and the Automattic team recognized this, wanted to offer top-notch commenting services at WordPress, and asked the IntenseDebate team to come aboard.

WordPress VIP’s Newest Customer: NFL

September 8, 2008

The National Football League has partnered with WordPress VIP for their launch blogs.nfl.com. This rollout includes Sunday Night Football Extra, their new web video application. Automattician Raanan shares the details.

WordCamp SF 2008

August 12, 2008

Automattic will host their third annual San Francisco WordCamp this Saturday, August 16th, 2008 at the Mission Bay conference center. Join the Automatticians and the WordPress blogging community for a day of blogging fun and to “figure out the future of publishing on the web.”

Register at http://2008.sf.wordcamp.org/

Featuring Matt Mullenweg

June 16, 2008

Check out Automattic Founder Matt Mullenweg on the cover of the July 2008 issue of the Linux Journal, where he discusses the WordPress blogging platform with writer Katherine Druckman in Keep on Blogging in a Free World.

Automattic Raises $29M Series B Round

January 23, 2008

We are thrilled to announce Automattic’s Series B round of financing with co-investors Polaris Ventures and Radar Partners, as well as new strategic investor The New York Times Company. True seed funded the initial round of $1M with Polaris and Radar, and the Series B round will enable additional product development to build a more exciting platform for the WordPress global community.

With 2.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress and over 100 million global uniques, Toni notes that Automattic is now larger than Facebook and Wikipedia. We here at True believe Automattic to be one of the most exciting privately held companies on the internet, but, of course, we are a bit biased :).

Om broke the news, but today’s WSJ and New York Times also discuss the transaction.

My favorite quote of all is from Matt’s Mullenweg’s blog, “That decision actually wasn’t hard. I couldn’t stop thinking about the opportunities, and it became clear that the road ahead was much longer than the road behind us.”

By far the most rewarding aspect of our business is watching a team of great entrepreneurs create. Toni, Matt, and the team are a tremendous inspiration for all of us at True.

Congratulations to Matt, Toni & the WordPress Team, and thank you for all of your hard work and dedication.

WordPress Offers 3GB of Storage

January 21, 2008

WordPress now offers 3GB of storage per customer, which is significantly more than is offered by competitors TypePad (from Six Apart) & Blogger (from Google). This a 60x increase in free upload space. Automattic is passing along their savings from optimizing their use of Amazon’s S3 storage service to their end users. Thanks, Matt, Toni & Team!

And The Award Goes To . . .

January 19, 2008

Toni Schneider & Matt Mullenweg of Automattic, who received two awards at tonight’s Crunchies. The Crunchies were held tonight at Herbst Theatre in downtown San Francisco. The event was co-hosted by GigaOm, Read/Write Web, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat. Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic, was awarded a Crunchie for the Best Startup CEO. Founder Matt Mullenweg accepted the Most Likely to Succeed Crunchie on behalf of Automattic WordPress.

Congratulations to Matt, Toni & the whole WordPress team!

From London to Qatar

October 22, 2007

UK Journalist Victor Keegan met Sphere CEO Tony Conrad, Automattic Founder Matt Mullenweg, and a few other virtual practitioners at the FOWA conference (Future Of Web Applications). Just as the virtual teams of these companies span the globe, The Gulf Times in Qatar picked up this article on the virtual office from a London news service. With virtual companies on the rise, news is not the only bit of information crossing continents.

Business Week’s Best of the Web 2007

September 24, 2007

While True Ventures did not make Business Week’s Best of the Web list for 2007, our companies did! WordPress was voted #2 for Best of Blogging (slide 2), and GigaOm was represented in Tech News (slide 20).

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