Think Positive!
Golf isn’t just a good walk spoiled I play golf. A lot of golf. I’ve played since 1987, and I’m only 34 years young. When I was a junior, I played a lot of competitions across the nation of Norway, but...
View ArticleThe Office
I co-founded WooThemes over five years ago from my apartment. It took me quite few months before I dared to quit my daily job as a developer at a local software firm. I had been working there for seven...
View ArticleHealthy Competition
There aren’t many things I enjoy more than good competition. No matter what the game is, if I have a chance of mastering it, I’ll put my everything into it. I was always into sports (mostly golf and...
View ArticleOne shot at a time
Running a company is an awesome job, as there are so many new things to learn every day, but also many challenges. Great opportunities often appear, and with those come more risk and responsibility,...
View ArticleEndless Summer
In Norway, we don’t see the sun as often as we’d like. Right now, there is a storm in the North Sea, with howling winds tearing off rooftops, accompanied by cold rain turning into snow at night. Winter...
View ArticleTech Bubble?
Are we near a new dot-com bubble? Some good insight in this slide deck from a16z. U.S. Technology Funding — What’s Going On? from a16z
View ArticleImpostor Syndrome
To begin in a new company can be overwhelming, especially Automattic which hires only the brightest people. Feelings of not matching up to you new colleagues are often described as impostor syndrome,...
View ArticleWhy is remote distribution (possibly) the future of work?
Hiring people that don’t live near you or your office is becoming more common, and we have embraced this from the start at WooThemes (and Automattic). At WordCamp Europe, Tom Wilmot from Human Made did...
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What does a8c stand for?
Going through due diligence with Automattic meant learning a lot about the company. One of the amusing things to discover was all the acronyms used, and the first time I saw “a8c” I had no idea what it...
View ArticleWordPress now powers 1/4 of the Internet
When we launched WooCommerce back in 2011, WordPress only powered 13,1% of all websites online, but it has almost doubled that since then, and now powers a whopping 25% of all sites on the Internet. I...
View ArticleOffice Today
This isn’t my office today, but one of my team members. We’ve got a pretty cool page at Automattic which showcases our office space for the day. Check it out! Our distributed team at Automattic hail...
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Internetdagarna in Stockholm
I told the WooThemes story at Internetdagarna in Stockholm. Our @mjepson telling the Woo story at #ind15 in Stockholm #wordpress #wpdagen RT from @bloggcoach pic.twitter.com/ErAvFOUY4J — WooCommerce...
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WooCommerce powers over a million!
We use BuiltWith to measure WooCommerce growth and compare to our competition. They just updated their entire database which includes 332 million domains, and WooCommerce just passed a million websites...
View ArticleWordCamp Norway 2016
Had a good time at WordCamp Norway listening to talks about WordPress being used for sites like Miljøpartiet De Grønne, Fnugg.no and United Influencers. Talking to agencies like Dekode, Maksimer and...
View ArticleWhere in the world is it easiest to get rich?
Loved this TEDx Talk by Norwegian comedian Harald Eia on why socialist Scandinavia is a breeding ground for rich people.
View ArticleKLM Surf – Destination Norway
Well done KLM for highlighting Norway as a surf destination. Insanely good footage!
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WooCommerce at IRCE
Internet Retailer Conference Exhibition or IRCE is the biggest eCommerce conference in the world. We attended in 2014 for the first time. The booth this year looks a bit more pro!
View ArticleEncryption and Apple
John Oliver gives a good overview of the encryption case involving Apple.
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One year at Automattic!
Today is the one year mark of Woo being acquired and us joining Automattic! It has been a great ride so far and time has flown fast, so we must be having fun. Our team is meeting up in Berlin in July...
View ArticleWooTrip Berlin
Woo is in Berlin getting some valued facetime together, celebrating 1 year with Automattic. Thursday was an eventful day which started off with presentations from Mark and Myself, a town hall and a...
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