posted on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:23 AM
by
paul
WordPress Funded
Act Two
Congratulations to Matt Mullenweg and Automattic on securing twenty nine and a half million dollars at this point in time when stock prices are sinking.
I've met Matt at the SXSW conference several times and it's just goes to show, if you build it they will come... I never understood how he would ever make money, but now the NYTimes is investing in this open source effort;
As we’ve adopted blogging and started to treat it as a mainstream publishing platform, there are all sorts of things we might do going forward to improve our approach - Martin A. Nisenholtz VP for digital operations of the New York Times.