Jason Lemkin

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26,931 appearances 51 recordings 3 series first heard Aug 2022 last heard 2d ago

Jason Lemkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 50 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 10.

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I think it's fair to say that the stewardship in the last few years has been tr troubled. matched

He's been in a big audience. matched

Argument with WP Engines about the argument is WP Engine is a hosting company that is hosting WordPress sites. matched

And I think Automatic wants some of that revenue, so they've been pushing WP Engines. matched

But the way in which he's behaved has been unhelpful to the open source project because it's kind of like I will use the leverage of my company to try and frankly prevent other people from benefiting from the open source ecosystem, which seems to be antithetical to the idea. matched

So I think it's been a troubled situation for a while. matched

I think the truth is the real issue is the world is passing that product. matched

It's kind of a sad little thing, because the world is passing that product by. matched

And Jason will be able to tell you that, you know, you can build most of what you have in WordPress with Lovable or Replet or any one of ten things. matched

And increasingly they are, as I've quoted before, the Henry Kissinger thing about academic arguments. matched

The fights are so vicious because the prize is so small. matched

The truth is, automatic doesn't matter a damn anymore. matched

It should try and build something new, but it's it's kind of on the tail end of I mean, to Jason's point about it's on the tail end of the tech trends. matched

They should be doing things totally differently to try and survive in the brave new world. matched

Instead, they're arguing internally. matched

So that's kind of the zoom-out comment. matched

Within that context, that's kind of their big picture. matched

And the front matched

The only thing is, like all litigations, when you get caught up in the detail of the day-to-day, you forget the big picture. matched

The big picture is this company needs to point WordPress in a forward direction to think about how you take advantage of what's going on in AI and become a relevant player in the next five years. matched

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