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WordPress: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence' by board (www.404media.co)
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> Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a host of other popular internet brands and pieces of software. Mullenweg has faced several controversies over his management of the company in recent years.

> On a company-wide Slack this morning, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced he has been put on a paid leave of absence. [...] He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Directors members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker “behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that.”

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[–] 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

lol the fact that he chose to bitch about it in the company Slack openly proves that the board was right to push him out, like what did he expect, that the remaining employees that haven’t been laid off yet will rally to support him, This guy has lost his marbles, the ones who took the $30,000 severance to quit must be very happy right now

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    I used to work at an international, where the CEO left to create a new startup.

    The amount of people that worked in his office, that made glazing email all (yep all 2500 global workers) was astounding. In short, that guy was seen mostly as a joke in a large slew of the offices. Because he was so lost from reality.

    But he had a cult following, because he was some kind of a name within a niche

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    not like he wasn’t just a fall guy for the board

    don’t feel sorry for him but he’s just the face

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    He's absolutely the main antagonist, not a "fall guy" or "the face."

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  • [+] -8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    main guys can’t be put on leave

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Motherfucker you know the extra T in AutoMATTic is him, right?

    It's possible to be the owner and founder of a company and, over the course of time, sell enough of your share of a company to be beholden to a board of minority owners/investors, right?

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  • [–] -5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    all of my what

    so you mean he sold control…

    as in he's now beholden to a board…

    who controls him

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Yeah I'm sure the board told him to publicly disparage WP Engine and then get in a multiyear dick-wagging contest with anyone who disagrees with him.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    oh that’s his ego thinking he could still do whatever he wanted, you know like he had actual control

    this isn’t the only unpopular thing with this dude recently, i imagine it was convenient for the board to scape goat him and put him in his place at the same time

    if this really was all just him they would have pulled his ass months ago

    my point is company culture is still shit, theatrics of his aside company will still be trash

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Imagine a kingdom. The king is the main guy and indisputably the most powerful. But the king has vassals who are each powerful in their own right. If all the vassals agree that the king is an insufferable bumblefuck doing them all more harm than good, this is a real problem for the king. The king can, in that situation, probably get away with a lot of shit for a long time while the vassals gather strength to oppose him. Each vassal acting individually would be an easy target for the king. It may take concerted action from almost all of the vassals to be able to successfully mount an opposition at all, even if only a partial one. Just because the king eventually fucks around hard enough to find out doesn’t mean he’s not the most powerful guy in the room until that time.

    Note that it took a majority of the board to give this guy a paid vacation. He’s definitely the main guy.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago

    and that’s why a ‘king’ is rarely an absolute ruler

    i mean fuck it’s all in our histories and popular media

    who was the power in game of thrones? how often was it the king?

    main guys don’t sell a controlling share

    guess who can owns 50.1% of Valve Corp?

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