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by prettyStandard 615 days ago
Basically WPEngine vs AutoMATTic (emphasis mine)

WPEngine is private equity(I personally like their founder, find his talks)

Matt seems to be a founder gone crazy(I don't know much about him)

.com and .org are both controlled by Matt.

.com is Matts business side .org is Matts non-profit side

WPEngine is another company

All of this seems to be very unfortunate. Even if Matt has valid claims, he seems to have shot himself in the foot, and lost community support.
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aldavigdis 615 days ago
His management style (which I'd go as far as calling it a belief system) simply does not scale, just like the BDFL model. It must have been great to work there when the staff count was around 30 or so, but not at a figure headcount.

I am worried that he feels like he's losing the grip he has on his holy trinity of corporate entities and that he'd rather burn it down as he steps down than letting an actual open-membership non-profit or a consortium take it away from him.

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