Blog
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Remote Work 👨🏻💻 at WooCommerce
As someone who works remotely at WooCommerce and Automattic, I get a lot of questions about the tools that we use to stay productive and connected. Recently, Beau wrote an extensive post about the tools we use for remote work, which does a great job of summarizing our setup. In his post, Beau covers everything…
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Office Today
This isn’t my office today, but one of my team members. We’ve got a pretty cool page at Automattic which showcases our office space for the day. Check it out! Our distributed team at Automattic hail from nearly every continent and 36 countries around the world.
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WordPress now powers 1/4 of the Internet
When we launched WooCommerce back in 2011, WordPress only powered 13,1% of all websites online, but it has almost doubled that since then, and now powers a whopping 25% of all sites on the Internet. I think open source generally grows stronger and more secure the more popular it is and more people it has…
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The Who’s Who of Woo (2012)
Back in 2012 we had a talented designer do some posters for WooThemes dubbed WooVille, and this is one of my favorites. I’m in the process of getting our WooVille comic series printed as posters for my home office. Sitting at 25 people, we managed to double in size over the next three years before…
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Why is remote distribution (possibly) the future of work?
Hiring people that don’t live near you or your office is becoming more common, and we have embraced this from the start at WooThemes (and Automattic). At WordCamp Europe, Tom Wilmot from Human Made did a great presentation on this:
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From Commercial Themes to the Fastest Growing eCommerce Platform – The story of WooThemes
Mark (my co-founder at Woo) spoke at WordCamp Europe on the story of WooThemes. If you are interested in how we grew Woo from 3 to 55 people in just under seven years, and how we were eventually acquired by Automattic, then take a look at the video of the presentation.