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WordPress is Entering its End-Stage Founder Period
- WordPress is entering its “end-stage founder” period.
- End-Stage Founder Periods (3 Ways to Recognize Them) are typified by flat-line growth, inexplicable and un-reproducible growth curves, higher than normal customer churn and employee attrition.
- All Founders Exit, but not all exits look the same.
- Most companies collapse with the demise of the founder, because the founder never truly empowered their teams, listened to their customers or the market.
- Do not turn on your people, Your clients, team members, and partner ecosystem are delivering valuable feedback.
- Step the Founder back. Launching a desperate public relations offensive against WPEngine has emboldened and granted tremendous credibility to detractors when you should actually be building the space for your promoters.
- Moving away from the day-to-day and handing over the operation to a tried-and-true professional can be tempered with a Founder’s continuing directional vision-setting and future-casting.
- The Web has reached mature saturation: the economics have been largely optimized, and now the very essence of what created the fertile soil on which WordPress was founded - user-generated content with view-driven community-building - has been exposed as, sadly, without much commercial value.
- But if WordPress can make the leap to a new modality, a new medium, and side-step the mobile wars and AR/VR search-fest, it could become a new brand that transcends.
- It just starts with listening generously and finding the problems that people are trying to solve, that no one is yet solving.
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