Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive…

ByDan Knauss Posted on

Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive has another insightful year in review for 2020. This year Syed has included more personal information like falling victim to a scam, along with his travel adventures and experiences with burnout. Some highlights from the WordPress-related items:

  • The Awesome Motive team is fully distributed and composed of 140+ remote workers in 27 countries.
  • WPForms was Zapier’s 6th fastest growing app in 2020 alongside Facebook, Zoom, and Webflow.
  • WP Mail SMTP is used by over 2 million websites and is currently in the top 20 most popular WordPress plugins of all time.

Syed notes that he practices gratitude 🙏 every day, but “2020 has been a challenging year…” Reflecting on it, Syed writes:

“I don’t think I would be able to keep my sanity if I didn’t start doing this daily exercise. Before you go to bed, take a deep breath and reflect on all that you’re grateful for.”

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