This week, Gabe Mays, head of the WordPress initiative at GoDaddy took over ManageWP’s AMA. While serving as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mays learned the ins and outs of WordPress from a tent in Afghanistan with limited internet connectivity on an old $300 duct-taped laptop. While creating a startup, Mays met Jeff King, SVP of Hosting at GoDaddy through connections in the startup world. Mays was skeptical of GoDaddy’s entrance to WordPress until he met the new leadership team who simply “got it.” After performing a product demo for them, he stayed in contact for the next […]

The “dotblogger” Paolo Belcastro from Automattic took over this week’s ManageWP AMA. Belcastro is a Spectrum Division Lead and got his start in online products in Paris, France in 1994. Since then he has managed high-profile domain names and found an internet consultancy firm in Geneva, Switzerland. In his free time, he is helping organize WordCamp Europe. Belcastro gives us insight into his everyday life at Automattic, his job title, and how staying on top of his work actually relaxes him. Here are the five takeaways: What in the world is a dotblogger? “One of the things I like at Automattic is that […]