Over the past few weeks, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has made one thing clear: he is in charge of the future of WordPress.
Mullenweg leads WordPress.com and its parent company Automattic. He owns the WordPress.org project and even leads the non-profit foundation that controls the WordPress trademark. To outside observers, these may appear to be independent organizations, all designed solely around the WordPress open source project. But when Mullenweg takes on WP Engine, a third-party WordPress hosting service, he blurs the lines between three fundamental entities that lead a massive ecosystem that powers nearly half of the web.
