Around 40% of the internet runs on WordPress. What happens when founder Matt Mullenweg cuts you off?


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Episode Notes

WordPress is a nonprofit foundation that supports around 40% of the internet, but its for-profit arm has locked horns with a major competitor. The hosts join Slate’s Nitish Pawah to discuss the battle between Automattic and WP Engine with the fate of a chunk of the web in the balance.

Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth.

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