Automattic is the Mullenweg-owned company that controls WordPress.com, the commercial arm of the WordPress open source project. Mullenweg is also one of three board members on WordPress.org and said in an interview with The Verge that the project “belongs to me.”

Days after 159 people accepted Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg’s offer of a six-month severance package to employees who wanted to leave, the company

Automattic has been thrust into the spotlight once again. Just days after a significant number of employees accepted a severance offer

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg made a new severance offer to employees on October 16, giving them just four hours to decide if they wanted to resign and receive nine months of severance pay. This new offer followed a previous one where 159 employees had already left the company after accepting six months of pay.