Jan12

Toni Schneider joins Automattic

Toni Schneider has left his position at Yahoo! to become CEO of Automattic, the corporate side of WordPress. Toni was previously leading Yahoo!'s API team and his move to Automattic comes less than a month about six months after his golden handcuffs came off from the Oddpost acquisition of June 2004. Om Malik broke the story of Tony's departure this evening on his blog.

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  1. toni on January 12, 2006 at 8:53 AM wrote: #

    Thanks for the mention Niall! I have to say though that golden handcuffs did not play into this particular decision...

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