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Chief Executive Insight with Toni Schneider

Toni Schneider is the CEO of Automattic, the team behind WordPress.com, Akismet and many other WordPress related projects. Since leaving Switzerland for Silicon Valley, he has been working with and successfully exiting startups. Before leaving Yahoo! to join Automattic, Tony … Continue reading

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The Genesis of Microsoft and WordPress.com

At the very beginning of this episode there’s a short interview with Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic, and Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Product Management, Windows Live. Only an hour before we recorded this interview they were on stage at … Continue reading

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Matt Mullenweg interview – Part II

In this second part of our interview with Matt (you have listened to the first part, right?), we discuss VaultPress; Automattic’s new backup system. Matt explains the features, pricing. Going from that we discussed hosting and their uptimes. Then the … Continue reading

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Interview with Matt Mullenweg – part I

Joost and Frederick interview the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, talking about loads of things. The entire interview was split in 2 because it was a bit lengthy, so you’ll hear part 2 next week. In this part we discussed … Continue reading

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Episode 46: WordPress 2.7 preview, Automattic aquires PollDaddy, Podcasting for Dummies and Practical Web Design Magazine

WordPress 2.7 is set for release November 10th. Automattic acquires PollDaddy, polls integrated into WordPress.com blogs. The WordPress Podcast was mentioned favorably in both Podcasting for Dummies (2nd edition) and Practical Web Design magazine. Please take a few moments to … Continue reading

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