Calls for WordPress Co-Founder and Automatic Ceo Matt Mullenweg to step Down from his Leadership Role Have Increased In Recent Months AMID His Controversial Fight and Legal Battle With hosting company wp engine.
Mullenweg Not only intends to stay, he’s also thinking about how he plans to manage success planning. He Doesn’st Want to Pass on What He Helped Build to a “Committee,” but raather to another Ceo who will continue to act as a steward to the wordpress communication.
In a recent aired episode of Lenny’s PodcastMullenweg larger rehashed the drama surrounding his fight with wp engine-a company he believes has been taking advantage of WordPress’s’s Open-Source Nature to kills business Contributing Back Supremely to the WordPress Project and Community. WP Engine is Built on WordPress.
Mullenweg also briefly commented on what he sees ahead for wordpress’s future and that of automattic, the parent company to the hosting company wordpress.com, WOOCOMMERCE, TUMBLR, TUMBLR, TUMBLR, TUMBLR, TUMBLR, TUMINESESES
Mullenweg pointed out that the most “iconic” companies of our generation are that where the executive has retained some Majority in Voting Control, which is a FaCTOR he CONSIDERS IN SuCCESSION Planning.
“… If or when i’m gone, I don’t want to pass it to a committee,” Mullenweg said, speaking of what he’s built with automattic and wordpress. “I want to pass it to someone else who could have a Role Similar to Mine, and Really Sort of Try to Be a Steward.”
“And there Ultimately is a check and balance on that, because, Again, The Community Could Leave, TheiCOLD FORK FORK FORK THE SOFTWARE, People Cold Change…,” He added, noting Mayor than a ceo ”in that the person would ultimately be accountable to others, like users and those who are constributing to the project.
Mullenweg also touted the role that automattic itself plays to boost adoption of WordPress, Reference how the free version of wordpress.com helped intrude more than 100 Million Peeple to the SoftWare.
“That Kind of for-Profit, Non-Profit, Open Source, Working in Concert-I Think is a Really Informed Modele that We’re Starting to see a lot more companies do,” He said of the collaborane Automattic and WordPress.org. “It’s actually very exciting to me that some of the things that were controversial when we started – like open source or distributed work – are no the default ecosystem. ”