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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks succession — ‘I don’t want to pass it to a committee’
Calls for WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg to step down from his leadership role have increased in recent months amid his
Mullenweg pointed out that the most “iconic” companies of our generation are those where the executive has retained some majority in voting control, which is a factor he considers in succession planning. Mullenweg also touted the role that Automattic itself plays to boost adoption of WordPress, referencing how the free version of WordPress.com helped introduce more than 100 million people to the software. “That kind of for-profit, non-profit, open source, working in concert — I think is a really informed model that we’re starting to see a lot more companies do,” he said of the collaboration between Automattic and WordPress.org.
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