Matt in 2019 in reference to new Automattic CFO (who in the present was part of the extortion campaign): “As we zoom past 1,100 employees in over 70 countries, we wanted a financial leader with experience taking businesses from hundreds of millions in revenue to billions and even tens of billions"

"I'm excited about working alongside such an experienced leader day-to-day to build one of the defining technology companies of this era." It's almost like Matt hasn't been focused on WordPress, but instead on extracting value from it, for years,.