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WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO running a $985M-backed open-source empire
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 94th percentile
- automattic.com ranks #486 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Automattic, an active software company he founded in 2005.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current co-founder and Lead Developer of WordPress, which he has led since April 2003.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)automattic.com ranks #486 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)WordPress was co-founded with other contributors, confirming co-founder status on at least one company.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Automattic has raised approximately $985.9M in total funding across 11 rounds.
Investor score
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor and principal at Audrey Capital, his personal investment vehicle active since 2008.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Active GP and fund manager at Audrey Capital, which he has run since September 2008.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 15+ years of investing experience through Audrey Capital, founded in 2008.
What you likely need
You'd get the most out of Festival events that put you in the room with late-stage founders who've navigated IPO timing, secondary transactions, and open-source monetization at scale. Roundtables with operator-angels and OSS infrastructure founders would help you formalize Audrey Capital's public identity and sharpen Automattic's AI narrative before any liquidity event. Board-seat dinners and pre-IPO operator sessions would extend your governance footprint and pressure-test whether Automattic's $173M revenue base supports a 2025 or 2026 window.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- positioningA late-stage founder dinner with $500M+ privately-held company CEOs — including Notion, Ghost, and Fastly alumni — who have run secondary transactions or structured liquidity events, to pressure-test valuation benchmarking and timing strategy against Automattic's $985.9M raise
- positioningAn operator-angel roundtable with low-profile but high-volume investor-founders like Tobi Lütke and Nat Friedman to reverse-engineer how they built a recognizable public investor identity without leaving their founder role, and map a concrete launch strategy for Audrey Capital's AngelList and Crunchbase presence
- fundraisingA WordPress ecosystem fund roundtable with Indie.vc, Calm Fund, and OSS Capital founders to design a formal developer-to-startup pipeline that converts Automattic's 43% web market share into a structured, investable deal flow engine
- positioningAn open-source AI dinner with founders and CTOs building against Contentful and Adobe Experience Manager to sharpen Automattic's public AI strategy narrative and establish WordPress as the default open-source infrastructure layer for AI-powered content
- fundraisingA pre-IPO founder roundtable with operators who have run IPO or direct listing processes — including Atlassian and Elastic alumni — to map investment bank relationships and stress-test whether Automattic's $173M revenue base supports a 2025 or 2026 liquidity window
- hiringA distributed-first engineering hiring summit with GitLab, Doist, and Remote.com talent leaders to co-develop a global recruiting campaign that turns Automattic's 80-country, async-native culture into a top-of-funnel magnet for senior open-source engineering talent
- introsA governance-focused dinner with founders of Hugging Face, Replicate, and Posthog-scale AI-native and open-source infrastructure companies actively seeking independent board members, to surface one or two board seat opportunities that extend your footprint beyond Field Effect and ecoAmerica
- tacticalA tactical open-source monetization dinner with OSS Capital's Joseph Jacks and founders of Elastic, HashiCorp, and Grafana Labs to stress-test Automattic's dual open-source and commercial revenue model against the scrutiny it would face in a public market roadshow