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# Matt Mullenweg, Automattic, & WordPress

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Seth Goldstein

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November 8, 2019

Sol 1835

![Matt Mullenweg the co-founder of WordPress](https://sethgoldstein.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/matt-mullenweg.webp)

[So many people are complaining about Matt Mullenweg and his “aspirations”](https://poststatus.com/fear-and-uncertainty-for-wordpress-with-matt-medeiros/)
 for [Automattic](https://automattic.com)
and WordPress.com. I don’t have issues with any of those “aspirations” or his [getting investment from Salesforces.](https://ma.tt/2019/09/series-d/)

What I do have a problem with is that Matt has co-opted and confused the brand of WordPress. There is the self-hosted and open source version of WordPress at [WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org)
and then there is the hosted, business [WordPress.com](https://wordpress.com)
 that Automattic runs.

I don’t even have a problem with [Jetpack](https://jetpack.com/)
 tying the two together. It’s just the confusion between Dot Com and Dot Org, that gets me.

What do you think? Is there more to this that I’m missing?

[automattic](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/automattic/)
, [Matt Mullenweg](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/matt-mullenweg/)
, [opensource](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/opensource/)
, [Salesforce](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/salesforce/)
, [wordpress.com](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordpress-com/)
, [wordpress.org](https://sethgoldstein.me/tag/wordpress-org/)