AutomatticBy Justin Abrahamse

Agenda• Introduction

o People

• Products• Background

o  Funding

• Acquired• Services• Wrap + Q&A

IntroductionWeb development & blogware company - August 2005

Wordpress.com Key People Matt Mullenweg - President - 25 Years oldToni Scheider - CEO of Automattic Ryan Boren, Lead Developer4 self-produced products WordPress.com WordPress.org Akismet.com bbPress

ProductsWordpess.comVIP - Hosting for wordpress.com

Akismet  - An anti-comment spam system

WordPress MU - A multi-blog community system  

Non-Profit & open sourse projects bbPress - Forum SoftwareBuddyPress - Social Networking Plugin SuiteWordpress.org Ping-O-Matic - A pinging service

Background December 2005 - Obtained Investors Automattic raised 1.25 million  Sold 1.1 million in Series A stocks January 2008 - Raised 29.5 million Series B round

  

AquiredGravatar  - October 2007

Globally recognized avatars

IntenseDebate - September 23 2008Commenting tool  PollDaddy - 15 Novewmber 2008 Polls and Survey tools

ServicesBig demand for professional services around Automattics projects - Select Clients Wordpress ConsultantsBraveNewCode Instinct (NZ)  - Wordpress plugin developmentIncsub - EdublogsThe Yellow Llama (South Africa) - development, tweaking, hybridizing and creation of custom WordPress websites

Wrap

• Q&A• Thank you