Matt Mullenweg’s extortion campaign against a competitor of his-for profit company has led more focus on the web of entities Matt Mullenweg has created and a lot of confusion between them. We are going to try to untangle those in this post. There are three or four central ones and two additional ones worth mentioning. If we have missed something (the web is complicated), please leave a comment so that we can update the post.

Automattic

Automattic is Matt Mullenweg’s for-profit company that has various WordPress focused solutions as well as unrelated ones. The WordPress related solutions include Akismet, Gravatar, Jetpack, Pressable, WooCommerce, WordPress.com service, and WP VIP. They also are investors in other companies in the WordPress space. [Read more]