Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave techcrunch.com

After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

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cisc5 days ago

> To replace the board, Mullenweg leveraged his voting shares — he controls 84% of the vote

Then what can any board ever do?

gigatexal5 days ago

Absolutely nothing. Too bad he revealed who he really is and turned out to be not a good dude. And yet his company runs the majority of his niche of the web. Ugh.

Grombobulous5 days ago

I think all this drama shows that Automattic is not going to last as far as their future business prospects.

I can’t think of a good reason to use Wordpress in a world where AI can whip up a completely custom site in minutes.

And if we think about things like “oh well websites AI creates aren’t that good,” well, that’s as of right now, which is the worst it’ll ever be moving forward.

This is also considering the fact that Wordpress is mostly a good option due to the ecosystem and relatively low cost. It’s not particularly easy to use or “good” in a lot of other measures.

jrflowers5 days ago

Write little notes about how cool and smart Matt is, carve a heart shape with MM + WP in it on the trunk of a mighty oak, take a picture of him to their hair dressers, nuru massage

4d4m5 days ago

Good. Matt brought the internet forward in a huge way. Wordpress is awesome - bringing many people and businesses online in a way that didn't completely rely on subscriptions at inflated value.

Anyone saying it's too complicated a CMS and isn't the right technical fit is so wrapped up in their own world they don't realize that they're not the userbase. It enabled people of every technical skill level to do great things. It brought millions of jobs and gigs to designers, coders, and plugin developers. Wordpress is a tool - and its success proves it was the right solution for those users back then and still today. Your average user isnt asking AI to set up a custom cms every time they want to make an update.

Woocommerce on WP is STILL one of the few ways to self-run a ecomm shop for next to $0 - where the big competitor charges $40 to 300+ a month.

jmathai5 days ago

Matt? Is that you?

4d4m5 days ago

Do you have a useful comment or are you trolling?

blinded4 days ago

Can't image working there, between this drama and the wordpress tiff last year.

RobLach5 days ago

This is gonna make things messy re: fiduciary duty and liability.

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