Automattic

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Automattic Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Internet Web Development Software
Founded	2005; 19 years ago (2005), in the United States
Founder	Matt Mullenweg
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, US
Key people	Matt Mullenweg (CEO, president)
Products	Akismet Gravatar WooCommerce WordPress.com & others
Number of employees	1,934 (January 2024)[1]
ASN	2635
Website	automattic.com

Automattic Inc. is an American global distributed company which was founded in August 2005 and is most notable for WordPress.com (a freemium blogging service), as well as its contributions to WordPress (an open source blogging software). The company's name is a play on founder Matt Mullenweg's first name and the word "automatic".^[2]