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WP Engine CEO Jason Cohen replaced by COO Heather Brunner

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Re: WP Engine CEO Jason Cohen replaced by COO Heather Brunner

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Post by integraton »

ckdarby wrote: post #4

Why is this on hacker news front page?

Jason Cohen's blog (http://blog.asmartbear.com) has historically been very popular among the startup crowd and used to be regularly front-paged on hacker news. Also, WP Engine is popular and many of us use it. Note that they host the blogs of several well-known tech companies.

Re: WP Engine CEO Jason Cohen replaced by COO Heather Brunner

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Post by nerdnorth »

jmduke wrote: post #2

To clarify: Jason is stepping down into a CTO role. This makes sense. Like he said in the post, as a company grows, the CEO role tends to shrink farther and farther from the technical nitty-gritty.

Managing a company is a lot different than starting a company. I think that's what Cohen is getting to here: he was good at growing the company in the beginning, but managing a company of 80 people is a completely different job description.
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