I’m also the primary person on Akismet, Automattic’s anti-spam software for websites, which we created from scratch. We just added the first engineer six months ago, but for the past four years, it’s been just me. I decided to do it because I was worried about my mom. She hadn’t started a blog yet, but I had this crazy fear that when she did, she’d be bombarded by spam for Viagra and think that had something to do with what I did all day.

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My mom started a blog a couple of weeks ago. Six years into this, and we finally made it easy enough for my mom to use.

Visto en: Inc, The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg.