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> WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg is joining the company’s board.

I suspect this has more to do with Akismet than WordPress. They are using Akismet to filter spam issues, but it seems to have a problem with false positives after making edits.

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More likely Matt knows a lot about running a free software business, which is what GitLab is for the most part.

This is interesting because the two companies are very similar, with Automaticc being a few steps ahead in several areas: distributed workforce, developer first, size / stage of the company.

It helps to have someone who has solved the very problems you'll be facing.

25% of the webs runs on Wordpress, which is more than a few steps ahead, in my opinion.

Recent stats now suggest just under 29% of the web (https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/al...).

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