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by AlchemistCamp 625 days ago
You "realized"? He built WordPress from the first day. That's why he runs both its non-profit and Automattic, which is named after him.

It sounds like you haven't been aware at all about WordPress and suddenly looked up some numbers and imposed traditional company expectations on an open source project with a commercial arm.
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ValentineC 625 days ago
> He built WordPress from the first day.

WordPress is a fork of b2/cafelog [1], and arguably wouldn't be where it is today without the initial open source community behind it.

[1] https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/the-blogging-software-dil...

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yawnxyz 623 days ago
I know absolutely nothing about Wordpress or Matt! I'm not much of an internet historian
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AlchemistCamp 623 days ago
Fair enough! Me, neither. I just had a WordPress blog for several years and the back story came up in various announcements in the dashboard news feed.
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