What Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has described as a “coup” at the WordPress.com, Tumblr, and WooCommerce parent company has ended with Mullenweg cleansing the ranks of the board that tried to oust him, TechCrunch reported.
On Sept. 9, TechCrunch reported Automattic’s board voted to place Mullenweg on leave. Around 33 hours later, he had turned the tables, booted rival admins from the company Slack instance, and the board’s state was “in flux” (one confirmed departure was Automattic founding CEO and Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider). TechCrunch’s most recent report, from Friday, indicates that a subsequent house-clearing included the removal or…
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