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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

Nothing has been automatic about the success of Automattic. Today, for those who haven’t been paying attention, the company looks a bit like an overnight success story.

There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic, the commercial backer of open source CMS, WordPress.

Automattic announces Newspack to help news organizations publish and monetize

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is announcing a new project called Newspack. While details are still thin, the company wants to help news organizations with an all-in-one solution to pub

WordPress.org Forces Password Resets Due To Compromised Plugins

<img src='https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/screen-shot-2011-06-21-at-5-35-50-pm.png' />Wordpress.org has just posted the following on <a href="http://wordpress.org/news/2011/06/passwo

Automattic Launches Jetpack, Gives WordPress.org Users WordPress.com Perks

<img src='http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/jetpack_full_logo_transparent.png' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" />Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org have a little more in common this morn