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Automattic board puts co-founder Mullenweg on paid leave
The board of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, voted on September 9 to place Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, naming finance chief Mark Davies as interim CEO. Mullenweg, a co-creator of WordPress, disclosed that he opposed the resolution in his vote, and his requests for independent legal counsel were denied. He remains a director of Automattic and still leads the separate WordPress open-source project.
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