I wish there were more details on the engineering team in the article. All they say is "25 engineers working remotely".

Would be interesting to know what the growth in the engineering team has been from the early days, and how they are distributed geographically.

I don't know which venture funding they are talking about. This article is like a mini-biography of Matt Mullenwag and Wordpress.

I've met him, he's pretty cool.

At the original site, it is a strange headline ("Founder of blog platform gets venture funding") given the profile focus of the article.

I think they gave it a newsier headline to put it on p. 1 of the Business section. The funding they're referring to happened a while ago and is mentioned in paragraph 11:

In 2006, Polaris, along with Blacksmith Capital and Radar Partners, invested $1.1 million in Automattic. In January, a second round of financing came through: Polaris, Radar, True Ventures and the New York Times Co. contributed $29.5 million to Mullenweg's company.

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