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wceu2022

  • What feels right and good for customers and employees vs. money: “We had bigger offers from other people with more money but it came with hooks that I just see keeping me up at night.” @justlikeair #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “There’s no such thing as the #WordPress ecosystem. There a million different system that connect users with their particular cases.” @justlikeair #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “I think because of this big domination or consolidation in #WordPress, it legitimizes the works of thousands of people over the last 16-17 years.” @strebel #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Question on COVID at @WCEurope: Panelists agree It didn’t accerlate the #WordPress acqusition pace. In fact, many on the panel suggested it slowed it down. #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “How many times did you say no [to being acquired]?” “I said no twice to @GoDaddy before I said yes once. Those no’s were added to a pile of 15.” @strebel #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • On the right tools: “They help answer the questions acquisitors ask ($$$ made, etc.) but they also help you run a business. You aren’t using them to BE ACQUIRED but to make SMART decisions.” @justlikeair #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “It takes a long time for the acqusition process to complete. For us it was 6 to 7 months,” @innerwebs creator of @GiveWP, acquired by @LiquidWeb in 2021. #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “One of the most powerful things about events [like WordCamps and @WCEurope] is the hallway out there… talk to people and building friends and future partners.” @justlikeair #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • #WordPress plugin growth in context of acquistion and annual recurring renewal… “things like a lifetime license for a plugin doesn’t scale as good as a recurring model.” @MariekeRakt #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “Strategic acquisition vs financial reason. Financial is someone who wants a return on $$$. Strategic is where your business fits well into their business to grow it.” @justlikeair at @WCEurope #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • #WordPress and @WCEurope crowd, I give you this. Go to town with memes. @strebel thanks you in advance. He is saying: “We made an acquistion.” #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Note to all @WCEurope attendees: (Without you probably knowing at the time) livestream cameras are taking random shots into the audience during talks. So be careful what you do if you don’t think anyone is watching is all i’m saying. 👃🏻 #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Up now on track 2 at @WCEurope: @VitoPeleg on how clients can make projects go from days to weeks to finish, and what can be done. #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • .@gziolo now at @WCEurope track 1 on leveling up #WordPress block building skills. #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Bottom line for @sirjonathan talk at @WCEurope: Strategic partnerships in the #WordPress space are a key to growth. Look to establish aligned interests and be committed and focused on your customers. #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “In any business partnerships watch for new opporunities by keeping team interests aligned… Also partnerships won’t go on forever. Plan a sunset, especially to take care of your customers.” @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Ideas for building momentum in a partnership: 👉🏻 audience ducation 👉🏻 roadmap alignment 👉🏻 feedback exchanges 👉🏻 partner education 👉🏻 expanding partnerships @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “In the context of partnerships, the clearer you are about what audience you want to server, the better.” jonathanwold.com/wceu/ @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • .@sirjonathan showing off the five stages of stragetic partnerships at @WCEurope: Opportunity Design Start Grow Support #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Good quote at @WCEurope: “If you want to reach a larger audience in the #WordPress space you have to find the people who already serve that audience and figure out a way to work with them.” @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • How do you get distribution in a decentralized system? Getting your #WordPress plugin in the WP.org repo may not be enough “and that’s where strategic partnerships come in.” These can mean distribution, growth, collaboration. @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Hosting companies have limited influence on decisions and choices (such as big changes #WordPress core, clients can easily go elsewhere for other choices). @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Benefits of #WordPress decentralization: 👉🏻 shared ownership, 👉🏻 lots options / plugins / hosting, 👉🏻 resilience (hard to kill the ecosystem). Tradeoffs: 👉🏻 decision making hard 👉🏻 difficult choices for plugins or hosts 👉🏻 risk of stagnancy. @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “Product growth is hard because #WordPress is decentralized.” @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • When it comes to partnerships the health of the #WordPress ecosystem matters. What is going well, what is going poorly. “Could be an improvement on the WP project resources, although regular releases are solid.” @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • 60+ million WP sites. 28% of all ecommerce sites @WooCommerce. “When I think about the size of the #WordPress ecosystem, I also want to think about Enterprise and other uses.” @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • “Our #WordPress ecocystem is maturing, but majority of partnerships still handled by a handful of people.” @sirjonathan #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Next at @WCEurope right now on track 1 a series of lightning talks from @paulfhalfpenny @imranhsayed @circlecube @ryanwelcher @juanmaguitar #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Another @postphotos good slide as he wraps up at @WCEurope. Treat performance as a long-term goal. Less is more. If you aren’t mindful of bandwidth, speed, initial paint then users will bounce. #WCEU #WCEU2022

  • Biggest single up-tick in #WordPress and tech security right now: credit card skimming. Over 25% of all new #PHP malware signatures generated were for these skimmers. @v_santoyo #WCEU #WCEU2022