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Goal: Not To Be Acquired

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  1. Mukki (1 comments.) says:

    $10 million for a year and $1 million for a month is too low for wordpress.com, but i love their goal, because if they got acquired by some greedy corp. it will directly affect wordpress development and other free services.

  2. Hikari (11 comments.) says:

    Well it depends on how much they spend on the system. I rarelly see somebody talking about a site hosted in wordpress.com, while blogspot is much more popular.

    Youtube is also much more popular, but had to be sold because it was costing 2 millions/month and bringing no revenue.

    If they can pay its cost and keep providing free hosting, it’s great. But if they can’t and must sell, or if some AOL just wanna buy it to get (in reality, lose) its customers, then everybody would run away.

  3. Lilly (1 comments.) says:

    Yes I agree, these figures seem pretty low. It would be very upsetting if someone acquires them and starts charging for service. There’s always this free service vs paid service, and as for free blogging service, they are great. I have several blogs on WordPress.com and I think they’re very user-friendly and convenient.

  4. kwatog (1 comments.) says:

    Matt said that their focus is more on growth both for .com and .org, I believe. As a testament, I only see ads on my wp.com site if I browse via mobile (android/iphone). So basically, they don’t maximize the monetization of WP. Actually, you’ll hardly see the ads so you got to think how they earn money aside from premium services.

    Congrats to them and despite all what’s said against Automattic, I feel their genuine concern for the WP community.



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