Professional Gentleman of Leisureβ’οΈ I have friends everywhere.
The Sonoran Desert π΅
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In personal news..
Iβm happy to report after 19 Years, 2 Months, 3 Weeks, and 1 Day since starting our company, which eventually became @Pagely Iβve handed off the reigns and will begin my retirement shortly.
Now available for podcasts. π
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Oak Creek (Sedona Az) rose 4ft this AM from all the rain/snow. Our vehicles are on the wrong side of the bridge.. lol. We are βflooded inβ for a day or 2.
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I fucked around and found out. π
12 years a go we took a big leap and invented Managed #WordPress hosting. Today we take another...
We've joined forces with @GoDaddy to bring the future of WordPress and WooCommerce to the world.
pagely.com/blog/we-did-it/
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Iβm still employed at corporate after an entire year. Marking this one as complete.
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Get and a keep a job.
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Yβall donβt understand how giddy I am over this custom made, and tailored suit. I got wacky body proportions. Having shirts and clothes fit like a glove, but comfortable is the way. Better late then never.
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I wonβt take over and run @WordPress no matter how much @photomatt asks. Heβs asked 0 times and I expect that to continue.
Aside: I met this guy on a bike ride today, I named him Barry.
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What happens when you land inside a major internet brand as an opinionated product owner - and no one tells you no?
Stay tuned.
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Sally made 2 sizable donations out of our family foundation to support cancer research. That felt good.
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We soft launched a brand overhaul last night. Made some tweaks to it today - with several weeks ahead of further refinment.
Hey World, Iβd like to reintroduce you to @Pagely
pagely.com/
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If I ever build a company over 20yrs and then am fortunate enough to sell it for unholy sums of cash, I wonβt make a big deal about it, but there will be signs.
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Longer Iβm on vacation the less I want to go back to corporate. Oddly this feeling never ever once ever came upon me as a biz owner. π€·ββοΈ
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The first step of a mission that will fundamentally reshape the #wordpress ecosystem in favor of the creators and entrepreneurs. Wish us luck. Everybody wins if we succeed.
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No one.
Me: Guys! I spent a fraction of all this tech money on all new, socks and underwear - all the same brand and color family and threw the hodgepodge of random brands and age out. Itβs all washed, folded, and put away.
Iβve never felt more alive
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I got word in the corporate slack that all the brands are gonna meet up at #WCUS and have a dance off. Losers gets yeeted from the yacht.
*legal as asked me to specify this is in jest
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Hey Friends, Take a click around an sneak peek preview of our totally new website. Tell me what you think.
pagely.com/new-site-test/
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I think my biggest win to date at corporate has been that I am so antagonistic and showboaty about our level of platform excellence at Pagely, they are moving mountains w/ on-prem to compete and shut me up. π
No accident.. the customer wins.
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Try the truffles. Highly recommend.
@courtneyr_dev @sunsanddesign @GetSource @GoGinaMarie @yanishen cc/ @Pagely
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Yacht Party invites are trickling out⦠#wcus2022 #pagelyparty
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I was at a corporate offsite.. like in person around a conference table. The president of the org responded to one of his VPs βletβs take that offlineβ.
Me being me interjected βwe are offline, like right now, here in this room is offline.β
Wild times.
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Shoutout to the @pagely team - these folks found another gear. With all the extra distraction of being acquired, and delivering a new platform, they have not just maintained the same level of excellence for Pagely and our customers.. theyβve raised the bar.
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My deep, meaningful, and educated thoughts on the current #wpdrama are as follows:
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My youngest made a core memory last night getting autographs from some @suns and the goated KD
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Iβd like to be the first to congratulate @TheJeffMatson on his recent promotion at corporate.
It was entirely predicated on him doing more of the no holds barred get shit done work ethic I love him for.
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Soaking up a bit of the Arizona Sun before #WCEU2022. Apparently they have weather in Europe that is not 300+ days a year of total sunshine.
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Fuck yeah, letβs cook. 1st 100 days: appoint a board of governance from across the business and user communities modeling other FOSS projects, giving myself extra but not overriding voting power.
Leverage new board to raise project maintenance funds.
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Based on my lucky timing of exiting that OSS communityβ¦
I should also buy lottery tickets or something..
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Weβve been pretty consistent with our kids that this is βmom and dadβs money, mom and dadβs lifestyle. If you want the same when you grow up.. itβs going to take work and effortβ
Pretty cool to hear them talk about future first jobs and careers, saving and then investing..
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.@pagely will fund up to $5k for tester compensation. Iβm sure others will as well. We just need a community led program to manage it.
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Spent the last 10days in Denmark. This society has definitely figured a few things out. Not utopia.. but so far ahead in so many ways.
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Hey #wordpress anything going on today I should know about?
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Odds look good we get to soft launch the new Woo hotness tomorrow. #woovebeenwarned
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My eldest brother (also a car guy) is flying over from Devon England to spend the week with me at #WCEU2022 - we rented a car for a few morning excursions.
A black Huracan Spyder was all they had left. π€·ββοΈ
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The super not so secret WooCommerce product corporate needed our platform for.. just hit an important milestone. π
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A little part inside me died today - as a few of the Pagely team conceived, ideated, executed, and shipped a fun little thing in 2hrsβ¦
Sad, cause thatβs a 10wk cycle at corporateβ¦
Gotta hold onto our agility as long as possibleβ¦
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In Personal News: Announcing the Strebel VC Fund!
Thats right, the Strebel family VC fund is setup and ready to invest.. in Very Comfortable experiences and vacations.. VC is the only way to travel now.
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My last 347 corporate slack messages have been copy pasta from ChatGPT.
Nobody has caught on and I was asked to interview for a higher title role.
Shhhhh
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10moβs ago today we announced the acquisition of @Pagely. Weβve done a lot of integrating, growing, hiring, building, snarking, eye-rolling, and helping.
Our ethos of quality remains intact. 30-day NPS never dipped below 80 and is currently: 100
#pagelyforever
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Los Apollo Diablos. Doing last min some shakedown runs. #baja1000
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Just agreed with my 8yr old if he gets all Aβs in high school - Iβll buy him a Lamborghini - I donβt think it resonated with him if he comes up short itβs a bike and a bus pass.
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The hardest part of onboarding so far is leanring the MS Outlook universe. Im 19yrs into my professional career and have never used the product suite..
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Every time I start some self grandizing tweet about business, my past experiences, my exit, or what not, I just delete it.
No one cares.
And this friends, is the key to happiness.. no one cares, and embracing that fact is the ultimate freedom.
Wait, did I just do it? Damn. π€·ββοΈ
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This is pretty cool and a BFD. The effort led by @Japh started 3ish years ago. @GoDaddy kept after it and saw it through. Kudos team. @Pagely is now SOC 2 Type II Managed WordPress Hosting. Soup to nuts. pagely.com/blog/soc-2-type-2β¦
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Gonna spill so many corporate PR sanitized talking points and audience tested applause lines - you gonna think Iβm a politician.
Acquisitions in WordPressπ€©
Very excited about this panel!
Because...
Guests:
@MariekeRakt of @yoast
@justlikeair of @TheEventsCal
@strebel of @Pagely
@innerwebs of @GiveWP
Hosted by @taeke of @levellevel π
europe.wordcamp.org/2022/panβ¦
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