Toni Schneider Leaves Yahoo for Automattic

Last week Om Malik broke the story that Toni Schneider, of Yahoo’s Developer Network, is leaving Yahoo to become the CEO of Automattic, the recently launched parent company of WordPress.com.

Here’s more on this news from Matt Mullenweg.

Congratulations Toni! 2006 is going to be a really big year for Automattic and WordPress. They’re really just getting started.

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