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How is WordPress.com made?
- 1. WordPress Sevilla Meetup July 2, 2011
- 2. Hugo Baeta Social designer - Automattic hugo@automattic.com @hugobaeta http://justhugo.com
- 3. How is WordPress.com made?
- 4. • What’s what • Why • Who & Where • How • Q&A
- 5. What’s what?
- 9. So, how do you make money?
- 13. Why?
- 16. Who & Where?
- 19. How?
- 20. • Talent • Loosely grouped teams • Open Source attitude • Community / Hospitality • Simple Tools (make things simple) • Passion • Autonomy
- 21. IRC / Skype / P2
- 25. But, how?
- 26. • Support / Happiness Engineers • WordCamps and forums • Plugins / Open Source activity • Our own blogging usage • Learning from the web • Prototyping, experimenting and making
- 28. Thanks, Questions? a Hug o Baet a ttic er - Autom de sign Social c.com aut omatti hugo@ aeta @ hugob .com u sthugo http://j
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- The most common question I hear about WordPress.com, vs .org, is about revenue. Quickly explain the four basic ways we make money: Ads, Upgrades, VIP, others (Polldaddy, Akismet, VaultPress, etc.)\n
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- Around 20Million of these are hosted on WP.com\n
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- We want to allow people to publish their ideas, no matter what! – also refer to the about page on wordpress.com for more speaking points (next slide)\n
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- Explain our start-up job titles, and how we’re encouraged to define many things for ourselves.\n
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- Community/Hospitality: Since we’re derived from an open source culture, many of our choices are influenced by the open source attitude of being helpful, communication, and a shared sense of taking care of broken windows and little things.\n
- HOW: Explain how little we use email and how IRC = hallway, Skype = private chats, P2 = cross team and cross company communication.\n
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