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Mullenweg Tells Automattic Staff in Slack He Is Back in Control, Days After the Board Voted Him Out With 50 Minutes' Notice
TechCrunch reported September 11 that Matt Mullenweg posted in Automattic's Slack that "the board is back in agreement, and I'm in control of Automattic," days after the board removed him as CEO, put him on paid leave and installed CFO Mark Davies. Reporting says he had 50 minutes' advance notice of the vote and his request for legal review was denied. Automattic has not confirmed the reversal. WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce and Tumblr sit under this governance fight, which means procurement risk for anyone whose commerce stack depends on the outcome, and the company is still publicly silent about who runs it.
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