← Back to feed Brand & Business

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

TechCrunch / 25 September 2026 / 23h ago
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
Culture Index
57
Score Breakdown
Relevance
3/25
Freshness
23/25
Authority
25/20
Brand Signal
4/15
Depth
2/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
Relevance Freshness Authority Brand Depth
After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.
Read Full Article → TechCrunch ↗

More in Brand & Business

Techmeme

Palantir and 8VC cofounder Joe Lonsdale, an investor in Anthropic, says AI companies are attempting to sway public policy by warning of existential AI risks (Joe Brock/Reuters)

82
Glossy

How Netflix’s ‘America’s Sweethearts’ fueled a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders brand boom

80
Techmeme

Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

74