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One of the hardest things to do in technology is disrupt yourself.

But we’re trying our darndest, and have some cool news to introduce today. When I took on the , we faced two huge problems: our growth was constrained by lack of capital, and the technological foundations of the past decade weren’t strong enough for the demands of next one.

The first has a relatively straightforward answer. We found some fantastic partners, agreed on a fair price, , and started investing in areas we felt were high potential, like . This “war chest” gives us a huge array of options, especially given our fairly flat burn rate — we don’t need to raise money again to keep the company going, and any capital we raise in the future will be purely discretionary. (Since last May when the round happened we’ve only spent $3M of the investment on .)

The second is much harder to address. The codebase is actually incredible in many ways — the result of many thousands of people collaborating over 13 years — but some of WordPress’ greatest strengths were also holding it back.

The WordPress codebase contains a sea of institutional knowledge and countless bug fixes. It handles hundreds of edge cases. Integrates constant security improvements. Is coded to scale. Development moves at a fast clip, with and more . Its power and flexibility is undeniable: WordPress just passed a huge milestone, . You can run it on a $5-a-month web host, or scale it up to serve billions of pageviews on one of the largest sites on the web, .

• Fully responsive. Make it small and put it in your sidebar, or go full-screen.
• Really fun to write in, especially the drag-and-drop image uploads.
• Fully multi-site for advanced users, so you can manage hundreds of WordPresses from one place.
• Able to manage plugins and themes on sites, including auto-upgrading them!
• 100% open source, with all future development happening in the open.
• Available for anyone to adapt to make their own, including building custom interfaces, distributions, or working with web services besides WordPress.com.

A lot of people thought we should keep this proprietary, but throughout my life I’ve learned that the more you give away, the more you get back. We still have a ton to figure out around plugins, extensibility, contributions, Windows and Linux releases, API speed, localization, and harmonizing the WordPress.com API and WP-API so it can work with core WordPress. Thousands more PHP developers will need to become fluent with JavaScript to recreate their admin interfaces in this fashion. I’m also really excited to revisit and redesign many more screens now that we have this first version out the door.

This is a beginning, not an ending. (.) Better things are yet to come, as all of you dig in. Check out these links to read more about Calypso from different perpsectives: