Acquisition

Agency Business Brief for the Week of September 12

Dan Knauss

September 16, 2022

WordPress Founders Invest in Atarim • Gridpane and Automattic Team Up to Serve Agencies • Salary Transparency — Why Not? • Learning Together in Post Status Slack: Adobe's Figma Acquisition and PayPal vs. Stripe

Is this a WordPress Acquisition?

Dan Knauss

August 25, 2022

BusinessHosting

DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways is an investment in the WordPress ecosystem with an emphasis on "digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress."

Networking Done Right

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

Notes

Extendify’s Chris Lubkert and Artur Grabowski unpack how WordPress founders can build a network of potential buyers early on to enhance the sellability of their product for a future exit. I’ve had many conversations with Chris and Artur over the…

The Decline of Speed Booster Pack

Barış Ünver

July 21, 2022

BusinessFeatures

WordPress success stories are great, but this time, you’re going to read about a failure. It’s about the Speed Booster Pack plugin and the depressing, constant decline of its active installs.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 62) — The Open Web Universe with Matt Mullenweg

Olivia Bisset

July 6, 2022

BusinessDesign

David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.

Coping With Downward Market Trends

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Post Status members discuss declining revenue — and how to offset it. How will the market slump affect acquisitions and sale prices?

Member Spotlight: Quay Morgan

Michelle Frechette

April 26, 2022

BusinessMember Spotlights

Quay Morgan is a self-proclaimed science and data nerd who wound up in WordPress quite by accident. He's the product lead for Ninja Forms.

What might WordPress.com’s pricing changes mean for the WordPress ecosystem?

David Bisset

April 8, 2022

BusinessHosting

Do the WordPress.com pricing changes represent an opportunity for the WordPress product ecosystem, a blow to democratized publishing, or the beginning of a slow pivot in the service's identity away from blogging to managed WordPress hosting?

Post Status Notes #490

David Bisset

March 17, 2022

BusinessDesign

Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.

Post Status Notes #489

David Bisset

March 11, 2022

BusinessDesign

An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 40) — Post Status from 2021 to 2022

David Bisset

January 6, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

Post Status went through a lot of change in 2021. What's coming in 2022?

Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft

Olivia Bisset

December 30, 2021

BusinessComments

Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper, Daniel Schutzsmith, Robert Jacobi, and Lesley Sim join David Bisset for three rounds of draft picks for the top WordPress stories of 2021.