• What does it take to run 19% of the web’s content?

    WordPress, Matt Mullenweg’s creation, runs nearly 19 percent of the world’s websites, with customers including the New York Times, CNN, FiveThirtyEight, Reuters and GigaOM (and Katy Perry). That takes a lot of horsepower. How does Automattic, the company behind WordPress, combine a distributed work force, open-source software and the cloud to build this blogging empire?