I came back not just because of the proxy, but because hundreds of top Automatticians messaged me about resigning or joining my next thing. I want what's best for all Automattic shareholders, which includes >80% of our employees. (We have a great internal stock system.)
More than ever, the web needs an independent player making major investments in Open Source and technology that promotes freedom, liberty, and privacy.
The week of all the drama, Automattic served 25 petabytes of traffic, had zero seconds of downtime, improved CSAT across all products, helped ~450k new websites be created, 20M new posts, 16M messages through Beeper, 1.1M journal entries in Day One, thousands of Open Source commits, blocked a ridiculous amount of spam and hacking, and did it with people working together across 83 countries! I could go on.