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Automattic Inc.
Company type
Private
Industry
Internet
Web Development
Software
Founded
2005; 19 years ago (2005), in the United States
Founder
Matt Mullenweg
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, US
Key people
Matt Mullenweg (CEO, president)
Products
Akismet
Gravatar
WooCommerce
WordPress.com
& others
Number of employees
1,934 (January 2024)[1]
ASN
2635
Website
automattic.com
Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software). The company's name is a play on founder Matt Mullenweg's first name and the word "automatic".[2]
^"About Us". Automattic. July 23, 2005. Archived from the original on February 1, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
^Morrison, Chris (October 19, 2021). "How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
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