I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

There's no financial aspect to stats.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.