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How to Get a Job in WordPress
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GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving is retiring…

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Rich Tabor has posted his reflections…

ByDan Knauss

Rich Tabor has posted his reflections on 2019, which included joining GoDaddy and selling CoBlocks and ThemeBeans. His goals for 2020 are “to simply read more,” “produce music,” and “get involved with core Gutenberg on a deeper level.” Rich predicts this is going to be “an even bigger year for the block editor” than 2018…