I’m extremely happy to announce that I’m joining the Automattic team (the parent company of WordPress.com) as a Happiness Engineer starting on Monday, October 28th.
I couldn’t be more excited to join a team of passionate people that are helping to power a large portion of the web including many writers, designers, and creative folk. In fact, I didn’t know this until recently, but WordPress effectively powers close to 20% of the web. That’s pretty impressive in itself. To make matters more impressive, they accomplish this large reach even with a much smaller staff in comparison to other companies with a similar-sized audience:
| Monthly Uniques (US) | Employees | |
|---|---|---|
| Google.com | 196M | 53,861 |
| Facebook.com | 140M | 4,619 |
| WordPress.com | 130M | 211 |
| Amazon.com | 79M | 88,400 |
| Yahoo.com | 69M | 11,700 |
| eBay.com | 68M | 31,500 |
| Aol.com | 34M | 5,660 |
- Pulled from Automattic.com