American developer who co-created WordPress (the CMS powering 43% of the web) and founded Automattic — the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, Jetpack, and WooCommerce — one of the most successful fully distributed companies in history.
Created the dominant open-source web publishing platform and one of the most studied remote-first companies — WordPress's open-source model (powering 43% of all websites) and Automattic's 100% distributed workforce model (since 2005, before remote work was fashionable) became reference points for both web infrastructure and remote work.
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