Awesome! @photomatt would also love to know the company's plans with HappyTools (https://happy.tools/), what's coming next?
Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
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Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#92"To that end, as we reviewed our hiring process, we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire." If that's there attitude then fuck them. You can guess which demographic they are talking about.
I googled the quote, and based on the context here [0], it seems like the demographic being referred to is non-male. What's wrong with reviewing hiring processes to determine if they're excluding a demographic that contains individuals who would have done well in the role? [0] https://cate.blog/2019/05/15/addressing-hiring-gaps-through-... EDIT: The tl;dr for the article is that they're doing research on "how the peo…
Read all the way to the end.
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
43% are in engineering, according to LinkedIn.
I would love for that percentage to go up, and we are hiring! High velocity and high scale backend work, tons of React with Calypso and Gutenberg, the most leveraged systems group I've ever seen, a really lovely-to-work-in native apps team, and of course everything coming in with Tumblr.
Why are you still pushing Gutenberg though? The reviews continue to be negative: https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/#reviews
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#94> “The roadmap is the same. I just think we might be able to do it in five years instead of ten,” Mullenweg said. I tried to hunt for why the investment was taken and this is all the article mentions. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I’m guessing that competition is heating up and they need marketing fuel to keep people on the platform while they transform it from a duct taped blogging tool to something more flexibl…
Competition in the enterprise market is also heating up. Adobe Experience Manager can be mentioned as an inferior product tech stack wise, but strong marketing including targeting the C level with PowerPoint presentations let’s it win customers. Feature wise Wordpress needs to do something at the analytics level. It does not make sense to host everything via Wordpress however everything data related is done via third…
Agreed, although I don’t think WordPress itself needs it. There’s plenty of room for everyone in the ecosystem, and there’s a lot of room to grow at the high end.
I work for a company (Human Made) which is pushing heavily on this, and our WordPress-based DXP shipped in-house analytics in our last major version. I can’t see consumers using this stuff, but in the space we’re operating, we need it.
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#95“What we want to do is to become the operating system for the open web. We want every website, whether it’s e-commerce or anything to be powered by WordPress."
God help us all.
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#96"To that end, as we reviewed our hiring process, we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire." If that's there attitude then fuck them. You can guess which demographic they are talking about.
This comment isn't in the article anymore..
It's on a blog by someone that makes hiring decisions. It's not in the linked article. You can google it.
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#97> “The roadmap is the same. I just think we might be able to do it in five years instead of ten,” Mullenweg said. I tried to hunt for why the investment was taken and this is all the article mentions. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I’m guessing that competition is heating up and they need marketing fuel to keep people on the platform while they transform it from a duct taped blogging tool to something more flexibl…
Automattic is no different than any other private venture-backed company despite its "multi-generational open-source freedom fighter" marketing jargon. They raised because they are running out of cash and cannot sustain the business for much longer without an additional investment.
Private venture-baked companies that have been around as long as Automattic and are profitable or have favorable financials are going public right now. Automattic doesn't have the numbers or potential to IPO so they must raise.
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#98"To that end, as we reviewed our hiring process, we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire." If that's there attitude then fuck them. You can guess which demographic they are talking about.
I googled the quote, and based on the context here [0], it seems like the demographic being referred to is non-male. What's wrong with reviewing hiring processes to determine if they're excluding a demographic that contains individuals who would have done well in the role? [0] https://cate.blog/2019/05/15/addressing-hiring-gaps-through-... EDIT: The tl;dr for the article is that they're doing research on "how the peo…
There's nothing wrong with reviewing your hiring processes to audit for equality. Outright saying that you attract a demographic that you DO NOT WANT TO HIRE FROM is a whole different level of problem. Might as well say no blacks and irish. That whole quote could be associated with various different ethnic groups over the years depending on the time it was written. in 2019, that type of quote should not exist.
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#99“What we want to do is to become the operating system for the open web. We want every website, whether it’s e-commerce or anything to be powered by WordPress." God help us all.
Better than Medium. Kanye West of the online publishing platforms. 'Pardon the interruption, imma let you read this blog, but...'
Re: Automattic raises $300M at $3B valuation from Salesforce Ventures
#100> “The roadmap is the same. I just think we might be able to do it in five years instead of ten,” Mullenweg said. I tried to hunt for why the investment was taken and this is all the article mentions. It just doesn’t make sense to me. I’m guessing that competition is heating up and they need marketing fuel to keep people on the platform while they transform it from a duct taped blogging tool to something more flexibl…
What do you mean by the "middle ground"? The way you described it, there's more middle ground with WordPress than with all other CMS platforms combined. There are a number of fantastic visual website builders for WordPress that allow you to generally build whatever you want without writing any code. If you have custom data needs you can use plugins to visually generate and present complex custom data, without writing…
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