E119 - What an Automattic IPO in 2021 means for WordPress Professionals (Brian Krogsgard, Post Status)

Nov 3, 2020

In today’s episode, Joe and Christie talk to Brian Krogsgard, the editor of Post Status, a news and information website for WordPress professionals. He also runs Ledger Status, a website with educational content and analysis about the cryptocurrency and blockchain space. 

 

Joe, Christie, and Brian discuss the possibility of Automattic IPO happening in 2021, the complexity of selling and buying market shares, the impact of WordPress IPO, and a quick but deep dive into BigCommerce going above it’s IPO price.

 

Listen in to learn more about Initial Public Offering and business liquidity!

 

Episode Resources

• Post Status - WordPress News
• Post Status Membership Club
• Leave an iTunes review or binge watch past episodes
• Send questions to [e-mail] for the next Q&A pod
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• Tweet Brian
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What to Listen For:

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:09 Let's meet Brian Krogsgard of Post Status
• 05:42 Automattic IPO in the future
• 07:27 How Christie started in the WordPress community
• 09:16 What is an IPO?
• 12:34 When Automattic goes public
• 13:57 BigCommerce valuation is in billions
• 16:27 The first day of BigCommerce IPO
• 18:17 The complexity of buying and selling market shares
• 23:19 What has changed in BigCommerce?
• 25:48 What is business liquidity
• 27:43 Is 2021 the year for Automattic IPO?
• 29:47 $300M raised by Automattic from SalesForce Ventures
• 31:21 The biggest impact of WordPress IPO
• 33:44 Automattic has reached the maturing stage
• 35:10 The effects maturing companies have in the industry
• 38:43 More consolidation in the WordPress space is significant
• 41:06 Some alternative solutions will eventually come up to challenge the core process
• 42:40 WooCommerce will be a dominant product for Automattic