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(2002 - 2004)
Total Funding: $6M
Total Funding: $44M
Total Funding: $20M
Total Funding: $11M
Total Funding: $7M
Total Funding: $9M
Total Funding: $180M
Total Funding: $110M
Total Funding: $29M
Total Funding: $110M
2005
2014
Automattic was created to democratize publishing and commerce. It's structured as a holding company, like Berkshire Hathaway, with sub-CEOs and four main revenue lines: consumer subscriptions, enterprise, ecommerce services, and advertising. We're behind brands you know like WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, Simplenote, Pocket Casts, Day One...
2005 - 2014
Shortly after Automattic was founded Toni Schneider joined as CEO, and over the next eight years I learned a tremendous amount from his leadership. He passed torch of the CEO role to me a few days after my thirtieth birthday.
2003
2003
Started as a simple open source blogging platform, at the beginning of 2022 WordPress powers over 43% of the top websites in the world. My roles with WordPress have spanned development, support, design, systems, event planning, janitorial, and public advocacy — thankfully, the community now includes people far better than me at all those tasks.
2008
2008
Angel investment and research company, a way for me to pay it forward the warm entrepreneurial help and guidance I received when I moved to San Francisco. 100+ investments, including successful exits in SendGrid, Ring, Blue Bottle Coffee, SmartThings, Typekit, August, Hipmunk, Divide, Makerbot, Gitlab; some fun ongoing companies with Calm, Elysium, Stellar, AngelList, Gusto, Over, Hint Water, Memrise, Getaround, Zero, Brilliant, StyleSeat, Stripe, SpaceX, Syng, and Wealthfront.
2022
2022
2017
2017
ecoAmerica is a non-profit building climate leadership, public support, and political will for climate solutions in the United States.
2019 - 2024
2019 - 2024
2010 - 2021
2010 - 2021
Non-profit dedicated to environmental journalism, published using WordPress at Grist.org.
2017 - 2021
2019 - 2021
Was very exciting to join the board of this fully distributed and remote-first company, and see them through their IPO NASDAQ:GTLB. I learned a ton from Sid Sijbrandij and Gitlab, and the company continues to inspire me. They epitomize transparency, directness, distributed, and remote culture.
2017 - 2019
2004 - 2005
2004 - 2005
Open Source and new product development.