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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 2005, in the United States |
| Founder | Matt Mullenweg |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, US |
Key people | Matt Mullenweg (CEO, president) |
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Number of employees | 1,733 (2024[1]) |
| ASN | 2635 |
| Website | automattic.com |
Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software). The company's name is a play on founder Matt Mullenweg's first name and the word "automatic".[2]
- ^ "About Us". Automattic. Retrieved October 4, 2024.
- ^ Morrison, Chris (October 19, 2021). "How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 31, 2024.