The cofounder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic embarks on a journey to understand the future of work. Having built his own 900-person company with no offices and employees scattered across 68 countries, Mullenweg examines the benefits and challenges of distributed work and recruiting talented people around the globe.
Trailer: A new podcast, 15 years in the making.
Produced by the Automattic Editorial team and Charts & Leisure: Jason Oberholtzer, Cole Stryker, Levi Sharpe, Michael Simonelli, and Meghal Janardan. Theme music by Jason Oberholtzer. Cover art by Matt Avery.
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Episode 18: Jason Fried on Treating Workers Like Adults. Read a transcript.
Episode 17: Matt Mullenweg Reflects on Distributed Work in 2019. Read a transcript.
Episode 16: Glitch CEO Anil Dash on Strengthening Values in a Distributed Startup. Read a transcript.
Episode 15: Inside the Grand Meetup. Read a transcript.
Episode 14: InVision CEO Clark Valberg on Distributed Design. Read a transcript.
Episode 13: Attorney Lydia X. Z. Brown on Making Work More Accessible. Read a transcript.
Episode 12: Toptal’s Taso Du Val on Finding the Top Distributed Talent. Read a transcript.
Episode 11: Stephen Wolfram on 28 years of remote work. Read a transcript.
Episode 10: Automattic’s Sonal Gupta on communication and chaos. Read a transcript.
Episode 9: Author Scott Berkun on how to manage distributed teams with respect. Read a transcript.
Episode 8: Automattic’s Cate Huston on how distributed companies can create the conditions that help engineers thrive. Read a transcript.
Episode 7: Leadership coach Leo Widrich on how distributed workers can build emotional resilience and stay connected. Read a transcript.
Episode 6: Design leader John Maeda on creative collaboration in a distributed context. Read a transcript.
Episode 5: Upwork’s Zoe Harte and Han Yuan on managing people and products in a distributed company. Read a transcript.
Episode 4: Mark Armstrong interviews Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. Read a transcript.
Episode 3: VC Arianna Simpson on Distributed Work and the Blockchain. Read a transcript.
Episode 2: Pluto VR cofounder John Vechey on the Virtual Office. Read a transcript.
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