Two Worlds of WordPress

This is a weekly column by Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk, veteran entrepreneurs and leaders in WP, and partners at Post Status, sharing their perspectives on what they’re seeing in WordPress.

How to become a founder

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Joost de Valk
BusinessTwo Worlds of WordPress
I became a founder when I started Yoast. However, I did not feel like a founder until I left Yoast. If you work in the company you founded, then your job is the role you have. I was CEO and,ā€¦

The startup trick doesnā€™t exist

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Marieke van de Rakt
BusinessTwo Worlds of WordPress
It only happens once in a blue moon: Youā€™ll tweak one single thing in your messaging, your check-out, or your email list and that change is the trick. It changes everything, skyrocketing your sales indefinitely.Ā  A lot of startups spendā€¦

The future is open-source

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Joost de Valk
PlanetTwo Worlds of WordPress
I am an open-source fanatic. I started my open-source career by contributing to WebKit in 2005. WebKit is an open-source software component for rendering web pages (an essential part of first Safari and later Chrome). The idea of working onā€¦

On Cloudfest, hosts and WordPress

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Joost de Valk
PlanetTwo Worlds of WordPress
I am at Cloudfest this week, in Europapark in Germany. This is my second year visiting Cloudfest, and I truly enjoy it. Cloudfest reminds you that pretty much all hosts offer WordPress hosting, and because of that, the WordPress communityā€¦

The WordPress Community Rocks

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Marieke van de Rakt
PlanetTwo Worlds of WordPress
I can be rather critical of the WordPress Community. Weā€™re not perfect. We could be more inclusive and more open. We could be more effective in improving WordPress. We could do more. And still, the WordPress Community rocks. It rocksā€¦

Joosts and Mariekes

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Marieke van de Rakt
PlanetTwo Worlds of WordPress
When working at Yoast with my husband, Joost de Valk, I often divide customers into the Joosts and the Mariekes. The Joosts were like my Joost: technically skilled, wanting to know everything about a product, quickly bored, always looking forā€¦

Two types of public speakers

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Marieke van de Rakt
Two Worlds of WordPress
I think there are two types of public speakers. The ones who are just natural storytellers and get away with preparing their slides the evening before a conference. And the ones that work at their slides, stories, and presenting skillsā€¦

Why is open source so very cool?

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Marieke van de Rakt
PlanetTwo Worlds of WordPress
I am an open source fangirl. And I think it should be celebrated much more. In a world that needs more sustainability, transparency, and equality, open source should be more prominent, embraced, acknowledged, and applauded by the whole world. Theā€¦

Why raise capital?

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Marieke van de Rakt
BusinessTwo Worlds of WordPress
In her weekly column, the first of 2024, Marieke speaks about getting investment, or not! Selling part of your company to investors can spur rapid growth, but it means losing some ownership. If you take investment, choose investors who offer more than money, like valuable advice and market expertise!
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