Nick Gernert

Oh, man. All right. How much time we got? Thank you. Thank you. So, yeah. So it's great to be here. Thank you, Ryan. It's always fun to talk. Big fan of yours and what you've done over the years as well. So congrats on this.

yeah so as you mentioned i'm the ceo of wordpress vip um which is a business that's within a much broader ecosystem that is the wordpress ecosystem that kind of what you know that i'm i'm very happy if 90 plus percent of your audience has immediate recognition of wordpress um you know i uh my background prior to you know the 11 years you just gave me credit for uh in this was

yeah so as you mentioned i'm the ceo of wordpress vip um which is a business that's within a much broader ecosystem that is the wordpress ecosystem that kind of what you know that i'm i'm very happy if 90 plus percent of your audience has immediate recognition of wordpress um you know i uh my background prior to you know the 11 years you just gave me credit for uh in this was

yeah so as you mentioned i'm the ceo of wordpress vip um which is a business that's within a much broader ecosystem that is the wordpress ecosystem that kind of what you know that i'm i'm very happy if 90 plus percent of your audience has immediate recognition of wordpress um you know i uh my background prior to you know the 11 years you just gave me credit for uh in this was

All digital agency comms, et cetera, on the practitioner side. So pretty much for my entire career leading up to this moment, I was working in digital agency at some level of it as a starting as a, as a freelancer all the way up into working into an, one of Omnicom's brands there. And so I have a really a deep love of the,

All digital agency comms, et cetera, on the practitioner side. So pretty much for my entire career leading up to this moment, I was working in digital agency at some level of it as a starting as a, as a freelancer all the way up into working into an, one of Omnicom's brands there. And so I have a really a deep love of the,

All digital agency comms, et cetera, on the practitioner side. So pretty much for my entire career leading up to this moment, I was working in digital agency at some level of it as a starting as a, as a freelancer all the way up into working into an, one of Omnicom's brands there. And so I have a really a deep love of the,

application of technology in general, but also I'm a product of kind of growing up in the 90s when the web was in its infancy. And it was something that I got access to really at some pivotal moments in my life and have been fortunate to build a career around helping folks navigate the web. So a lot of my work

application of technology in general, but also I'm a product of kind of growing up in the 90s when the web was in its infancy. And it was something that I got access to really at some pivotal moments in my life and have been fortunate to build a career around helping folks navigate the web. So a lot of my work

application of technology in general, but also I'm a product of kind of growing up in the 90s when the web was in its infancy. And it was something that I got access to really at some pivotal moments in my life and have been fortunate to build a career around helping folks navigate the web. So a lot of my work

On the agency side, leading up to bringing me into VIP, just happened to be with really large brands sort of as I was kind of in the final years of my agency side. And there's this really interesting dynamic that some really large brands that were more daring in how they were trying to engage with their customers.

On the agency side, leading up to bringing me into VIP, just happened to be with really large brands sort of as I was kind of in the final years of my agency side. And there's this really interesting dynamic that some really large brands that were more daring in how they were trying to engage with their customers.

On the agency side, leading up to bringing me into VIP, just happened to be with really large brands sort of as I was kind of in the final years of my agency side. And there's this really interesting dynamic that some really large brands that were more daring in how they were trying to engage with their customers.

So think of this as like a time when social media marketing and things like this were still really trying to, brands were trying to wrap their head around it. And so we were working with really ambitious brands on how they could engage with their customers in a new and exciting way.

So think of this as like a time when social media marketing and things like this were still really trying to, brands were trying to wrap their head around it. And so we were working with really ambitious brands on how they could engage with their customers in a new and exciting way.

So think of this as like a time when social media marketing and things like this were still really trying to, brands were trying to wrap their head around it. And so we were working with really ambitious brands on how they could engage with their customers in a new and exciting way.

and there was a lot of wordpress that we ended up recommending that customers use and so wordpress this big open source community movement i'm part of a company that was started by the creator of wordpress a guy named matt this company automatic that i'm part of as wordpress vip

and there was a lot of wordpress that we ended up recommending that customers use and so wordpress this big open source community movement i'm part of a company that was started by the creator of wordpress a guy named matt this company automatic that i'm part of as wordpress vip

and there was a lot of wordpress that we ended up recommending that customers use and so wordpress this big open source community movement i'm part of a company that was started by the creator of wordpress a guy named matt this company automatic that i'm part of as wordpress vip

It started to really help support the broader open source ecosystem, but 11 or so years ago, Automatic didn't really have this business that was focused on some of the largest customers that could really serve some of the biggest use cases. Biggest brands, large, thorny public sector rollouts and things like this that you might do. And yet that was already happening.