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d on office culture in terms of when people work move to being output driven for meertings video audio calls and the like try and keep them between reasonable hours that don t force early morning or late night commutes ex only have meetings between 10am and 3pm consider no meetings on monday and friday which are heavy traffic long commute days and encourage mon and fri to be deep project days where people can grab 2 hour long chunks of time to go deep on work if people only commute 3 week and don t fight rush our they may actually get more comfortable living a bit further away in a more affordable housing situation use the best tools that highly distributed teams use slack skype etc even when you are in the office document everything every meeting should be summarized square has been doing this for years every discussion every bit of financial and product metrics should be available to all employees work on a handbook to get new employees ramped up quickly automattic did an amazing job with this effort invest in internal tools you need a team ideally dedicated to making work from anywhere efficient you need a search tool you need a way to understand the big goals the okrs and so much more the more you make your resources self serve the better you ll do in not needing to be in the office every single moment and a huge secondary effect of this is making new hires more efficient and have quicker ramp ups the days of an expensive office in a big city where your employees struggle to find nearby affordable housing just doesn t feel that viable long term but the idea of only being distributed with no in person interactions also feels challenging and deprives us of the energy we need to create and be happy productive share this tweet like loading may 15 2020 raanan bar cohen automattic distributed hybrid remote leave a comment michael abrash f8 and quick thoughts on vr to me it s quite remarkable that michael abrash and john carmack have been reunited at oculus and now at facebook they drove much of the innovation in first person 3d games while at id software with games such as doom and quake i remember in the mid to late 90s that there was a whole community that wanted them to work on vr and multi player worlds and it just strikes that it s a near perfect hollywood script that they would end up together again ushering in this next wave of vr i ve personally been interested in vr starting with vrml pronounced vermal and maybe the worst pronounced acronym ever the html of vr and been super excited to watch oculus and other entrants make their debut when people ask me why i m excited about vr the way i answer it is the following the first time i tried the oculus it was like using a ti 99 or apple iie for the first time in that it wasn t perfect and had some very clunky aspects to it but you could instantly imagine what version 5 or 6 would be like and how mind blowing it would be as importantly oculus was the first vr device that convincingly tricked my mind into accepting that what i was seeing was real when i did a racing demo i tried to crash into a wall and as hard as i tired i couldn t help but flinch and really felt a visceral reaction it s hard to explain but i encourage anyone who hasn t tried it yet to find a demo or even better yet head to a local vr meetup to see a whole bunch of demos and meet the people who are working on this cutting edge stuff last week abrash gave a talk at f8 on virtual reality and i think it s a must watch to understand just why this time around vr might become a very big deal share this tweet like loading march 30 2015 raanan bar cohen f8 facebook id software john carmack michael abrash virtual reality vr leave a comment the new golf free beer easy putting in this recent hbo real sports episode pretty wild stats on how far golf has fallen in terms of popularity since it peaked with tiger woods mania a few years ago and equally wild ideas to resurrect popularity including making putting a cinch by expanding the cup to a massive size as someone who has managed to play once or twice a year for 20 years and remain terrible but hopelessly optimistic that one day the game will get easier i can understand the frustration the biggest gap that jumps out to me with golf is that there is no natural place to practice the idea of going to the driving range seems tough to pull off when you play soccer baseball basketball etc with your kids or friends it s either in the backyard or down the street at the park i think for golf to take off the industry needs to figure out a way get the game into the backyard and parks so when people actually get to the courses the game will be easier maybe technology will play a role with lower costs simulators backyard nets 3d swing analyzers and other gadgets will be an interesting space to watch share this tweet like loading september 15 2014 raanan bar cohen gadgets golf hbo hbo real sports tiger woods leave a comment thanks automattic hello resolute ventures in many ways the number seven holds special value it s a lucky number in various cultures the number of days in a week plays a role in agriculture and crop rotation and it s said that your allergies reset and change after seven years so changing things up after seven years just feels right but as one of my editorial colleague back at time would frequently remind the team stop burying the lead so i ll take that advice and jump into the tl dr after seven incredible fun and rewarding years at automattic i m wrapping up in a couple of weeks and joining mike hirshland at resolute ventures as a general partner resolute is focused on early stage seed investing and already has fantastic companies in the portfolio when i joined automattic back in 2007 we were a handful of folks distributed around the world running wordpress com and akismet and contributing everything we did to the wordpress open source project when we got together in person we could fit around one table in the old pier38 which was true venture s sf office and later we got a space of our own at the very same pier about a year in i recall that google and others had estimated that wordpress powered about one percent of the web which we were ecstatic about i remember thinking here was a company with still a couple of dozen people having raised just over a million dollars in funding and what a big impact already fast forward to today and wordpress is powering over 22 of the web automattic is 250 people in 190 cities and 30 countries profitable and now with a war chest a positive force for the open web and we are still contributing everything we do back into a huge open source project as matt mullenweg the founder and ceo of automattic likes to say we open source everything but our password files it s a powerful concept and one that has held true at automattic for all these years looking at our growth i decided to flip through the annual company meetup photos over the past few years it s fun to look at these photos as a nice visual on just how much the company grew 2007 company meetup in stinson beach 2008 company meetup in arizona late 2008 company meetup in colorado 2009 company meetup in canada 2010 company meetup in florida 2011 company meetup in budapest 2012 company meetup in san diego 2013 company meetup in santa cruz i want to especially thank matt mullenweg and toni schneider for making this an amazing journey we sketched out some big ambitious plans often at crossroads all those years ago and it s incredible to look at where things are now and see how many of those big ideas became a reality when we started talking about my transition a while back matt toni were super supportive and it was fun and a bit nostalgic to walk down memory lane and add up all the amazing experiences we ve had together at automattic maybe more than any other company i ve worked at every single team member made themselves available to help at a moments notice we were real time before it was cool all it took was a ping in irc and you had the top person in the world in their field ready to help i m biased but the talent level at automattic is incredible so a special thank you to those early team members who welcomed me with open arms and helped me ramp up too many to list but i ll try barry abrahamson mike adams ryan boren andy skelton joseph scott nikolay bachiyski donncha o caoimh mark riley maya desai lloyd dewolf matt miklic alex shiels demitrious kelly and many others you all were unbelievable colleagues and true friends i loved every second at automattic and have learned a ton along the way i loved the way we worked and focused on output and put engineers at the center of the company automattic and wordpress will always be part of my dna and i can t wait to see what the talented team tackles next in fact i ll remain an advisor to automattic and you ll still see me out there championing the cause of democratizing publishing for anyone looking to work at a fast paced fun and big impact type of organization i can 100 recommend working at automattic i also want to thank phil black jon callaghan tony conrad and the whole team at true ventures i ve known many of them even longer than my colleagues at automattic and they are just a tremendous group of people who are the embodiment of integrity and loyalty i ve learned so much from them and in many ways they provided the spark that got me hooked on working with early stage companies in terms of resolute ventures this was an opportunity that was tailor made for me my passion is working right in the intersection of technology and entrepreneurship i ve always been both a tech entrepreneur who is passionate about building businesses and working on product and a business guy who thinks the more technical you are the closer you are to the truth i love working with founders and helping early stage companies navigate and make sense of the amazing opportunities and the chaos i ve founded companies back in the web 1 0 days worked at large media companies in ny and have helped grow automattic the last few years wearing many different hats from building up our enterprise vip business to most recently heading up corp dev and partnerships the highlights for me at automattic were definitely helping bring people on board either through hiring or acquisitions and seeing fantastic people make great contributions has been incredibly rewarding mike hirshland the founder of resolute ventures is someone well known here in the valley especially for a guy based in boston i ve known him for close to a decade and he served on our board at automattic for many years while at polaris and was part of the original investors in automattic many of you know him from dogpatch labs which he ran and where instagram and many other companies got their start he s a true advocate for founders and blends hard work persistence and self deprecating humor into something magical part of me is definitely a bit sad to be leaving my family at automattic but i m excited for the next chapter and can t wait to work with all the fantastic people who are part of resolute a special shout out to my friends who helped me with this transition and were so generous with their time and insights so here goes something new and i m looking forward to the next seven years and beyond share this tweet like loading may 16 2014 raanan bar cohen automattic resolute ventures true ventures wordpress 37 comments automattic series c we announced some funding news today so no need to keep reading those rumor based posts here are the official details from our ceo matt mullenweg i ll start with the big stuff automattic is raising 160m all primary and it s the first investment into the company since 2008 this is obviously a lot of money especially considering everything we ve done so far has been built on only about 12m of outside capital over the past 8 years and a good recap by liz gannes and kara swisher over on re code net share this tweet like loading may 5 2014 raanan bar cohen automattic funding kara swisher liz gannes matt mullenweg 1 comment what do the wordpress vip workshop the google exec team retreat have in common while reading this post about google larry page on business insider i ran across this blurb in february 2013 google s senior executives flew in from around the world to meet at the carneros inn a rustic resort in the hilly vineyards of napa valley this was google s annual two day top secret retreat for senior executives carneros inn is a magical place and is also home to our annual vip developer workshop share this tweet like loading may 3 2014 raanan bar cohen carneros inn google napa vip workshop leave a comment longreads joins the automattic family so excited about this wordpress com blog today we re excited to announce that we are acquiring longreads the pioneering service that helps readers find and share the best longform storytelling around the world for reading on mobile devices over the last five years longreads and its community have created a new ecosystem for readers to find great in depth stories and for writers and publishers to distribute their best work over 1 500 words longreads will continue to do what it does best recommending stories from across the internet and we are excited to have them join the wordpress com team and continue in their commitment to serving readers mobile reading and the appetite for longform content as consumption has moved to mobile devices there has been a growing hunger for longform content phones and tablets are perfect for enjoying in depth articles and there are more moments than ever for readers to dig into a story view original post 153 more words share this tweet like loading april 9 2014 raanan bar cohen leave a comment a new dan ariely project dishonesty a documentary feature film really excited to see dan ariely working on this i love his books and always find him super engaging and thoughtful this embed is invalid they need a little bit more to get over the finish line so if you find this kind of stuff interesting please consider backing this project now on kickstarter share this tweet like loading march 24 2014 raanan bar cohen dan ariely documentary kickstarter 3 comments video a conference call in real life on a related note finding more and more of my conference calls are now skype video or google hangout video calls and if it s audio only i m a big fan of uber conference great service and has nice little touches like showing you who is speaking and being able to call in through your browser share this tweet like loading january 26 2014 raanan bar cohen conference calls google hangout humor uber conference youtube 1 comment 2013 a year in review an amazing year wordpress com blog with 2013 behind us we can now take a look at our community s incredible accomplishments over the past year here s the year that was on wordpress com 13 704 819 new blogs in 2013 that s a 36 increase from 2012 during which 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