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Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic

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199 points orangeteacups | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.276s | source
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atonse ◴[17 Oct 24 18:23 UTC] No.41872244[source]▶
Should I even bother asking why there isn't some kind of Board of Directors at WP?

They could act as a check against one person going absolutely insane and destroying a company and hundreds of jobs in the process. (except in obvious cases like Musk or Zuckerberg of course, where they basically run everything and the board never pushes back)

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duskwuff ◴[17 Oct 24 18:27 UTC] No.41872287[source]▶
Automattic does have a board of directors, and it's squarely under Matt's control.

https://automattic.com/board/

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1. mfer ◴[17 Oct 24 19:46 UTC] No.41873083[source]▶
Automattic is a VC funded startup that's taken close to a billion dollars in funding, over the years.

I wonder how much influence the VCs had in these decisions or if any of these decisions will cause them to step in and make changes.