Automattic Acquires Gravatar
October 18, 2007 — Acquisitions
Automattic Inc., founded by Matt Mullenweg, is the driving force behind Wordpress.com and Akismet (the spam enforcer sitting at the club doors of this website.)
“This is what I’ve been working on since I left CNET. The site is still just a shell though, a lot more tidying up to do there.” Matt has come a very long way from where he once started. Matt now has a very profitable business model that Wordpress.com is wrapped around and is moving in the direction of making acquisitions.
Gathering from what else has been happening on the ‘net recently, it seems that making corporate acquisitions is the latest fad around.
Matt is proud to be boasting a “three times faster” loading time already. We have been planning on moving over to Gravatars soon anyway, but this is just another encouragement to do that.