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" 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? "
Employees
Working
Why
" Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. "
Server
Started
Together
" A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own. "
Own
Adoption
Early
" As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software. "
Every Day
Day
Web
" Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. "
Been
Always
Which
" Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea. "
Time
Law
Good
" Before the widespread rise of the Internet and easy publishing tools, influence was largely in the hands of those who could reach the widest audience, the people with printing presses or access to a wide audience on television or radio, all one-way mediums that concentrated power in the hands of the few. "
Easy
Power
People
" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "
Time
Internet
Half
" Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. "
Your
Relaxation
Work
" Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse. "
Environment
Focus
Role
" Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. "
World
Think
Story
" For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die. "
You
Back
Die
" For me, open source is a moral thing. "
Open Source
Open
Moral
" For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model. "
Sustainable
World
Class
" From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff. "
Reading
People
Time
" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "
I Wish
Wish
Go
" Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making. "
Writing
Amazing
Community
" I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. "
People
Truth
You
" I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. "
Morning
Sleep
Time
" I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work. "
Good
Care
Work
" I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. "
Child
Care
School
" I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. "
Ideas
Out
Big
" I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use. "
Service
Control
Great
" If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. "
Much
Wish
Two
" If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion. "
Best
Job
Business
" If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad. "
Job
Ideas
Focus
" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "
Still
Blog
Change
" If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. "
Information
Think
Ideas
" If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water. "
Good
Water
Day
" If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that. "
Game
Like
Building
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