{"id":1236965,"date":"2025-03-04T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236965"},"modified":"2025-03-04T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:20:00","slug":"automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-talks-succession-i-dont-want-to-pass-it-to-a-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236965","title":{"rendered":"Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Talks Succession &#8211; &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Want To Pass It To a Committee&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said on a podcast he aims to eventually hand over leadership to a single successor rather than &#8220;a committee,&#8221; amid growing calls for him to step down following his legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. On a recent episode of Lenny&#8217;s Podcast, Mullenweg discussed his succession strategy for Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, WooCommerce and Tumblr. &#8220;I want to pass it to someone else who could have a role similar to mine, and really sort of try to be a steward,&#8221; Mullenweg said, comparing the position to &#8220;being like a mayor than a CEO&#8221; as the leader would remain accountable to users and contributors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Automattic+CEO+Matt+Mullenweg+Talks+Succession+-+'I+Don't+Want+To+Pass+It+To+a+Committee'%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F04%2F2144219%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/twitter_icon_large-58.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F03%2F04%2F2144219%2Fautomattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-talks-succession---i-dont-want-to-pass-it-to-a-committee%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/facebook_icon_large-59.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/03\/04\/2144219\/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-talks-succession---i-dont-want-to-pass-it-to-a-committee?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23627205&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said on a podcast he aims to eventually hand over leadership to a single successor rather than &#8220;a committee,&#8221; amid growing calls for him to step down following his legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}