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Ben Gabler is evidence that when you couple a passion for team-building with an entrepreneurial spirit, you can build technologies that simplify daily tasks, improving quality of life. With a proven record growing technology businesses, Gabler has expanded market share for major global Web hosting brands and brought technology startups from initial idea to success. Ben launched the Web hosting company Host Nine in 2006. Four years later, HostGator bought HostNine and appointed Gabler as their Chief Operating Officer. Appointed as the Senior Product Manager of Hosting at GoDaddy in 2013, Ben managed close to $500 million in product revenue, where he implemented a comprehensive redesign and relaunch of all hosting products in just over four months. In 2014, Gabler developed EasyRent.com, the first-ever all-in-one property management platform. By combining product vision with technical acumen, Ben attracted more than 12,000 users in only five months. To expand his efforts, Gabler took on a new role in late-2015: Chief Executive Officer at customer service software company Help.com. At Help.com, Ben’s mission is to build the world’s most robust toolset for online customer support. During 13+ years of business experience, he became increasingly aware that online service tools are essential and customer service is often a key differentiator. Wanting to best meet the needs of growing businesses, Gabler built a world-class customer service toolset so that his customers could provide world-class customer service. Upon completion of the Help.com Platform, Gabler joined Lance Crosby and team at StackPath as Chief Product Officer. Gabler drove the Product & Software Engineering efforts around consolidating all of the StackPath acquisitions and most notably launched the world's first true Edge Computing platform. https://rocket.net/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengabler/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber This Weeks Special Guests Panelists Matt Medeiros and Andrew Palmer   This Week Show's Sponsors+ Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/ Webinar Friday 12th of March LaunchFlows 10:30am PST   #1 - The WordPress community w/ Matt Mullenweg https://mattreport.com/the-wordpress-community-w-matt-mullenweg/ #2 - Elementor to Roll Out Significant Pricing Hike for New Customers https://wptavern.com/elementor-to-roll-out-significant-pricing-hike-for-new-customers   #3 - How to Understand SEO Research for WordPress Products https://getellipsis.com/blog/seo-research/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-200 #4 - U.S. election commission adopts nationwide paper ballot guidelines https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/u-s-election-commission-adopts-nationwide-paper-ballot-guidelines-n1257315 #5 - WordPress Passes 40% Market Share of Alexa Top 10 Million Websites https://wptavern.com/wordpress-passes-40-market-share-of-alexa-top-10-million-websites #6- Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetize their conversations  

Mathias brings with him a strong international background in entrepreneurship and business development and has extensive experience offering a range of IT and management consulting services to his clients including; cloud and mobile based app development, advanced database development, online shop templates, corporate webpages, and media optimization. His recent focus has been in assisting innovative start-ups in building their IT infrastructure and commercializing their technologies. Prior to moving to Canada and founding Creative Maple, Mathias spent seven years living in Beijing, China where his firm developed IT solutions for the consumer products industry that utilized innovative smartphone scanning technology to help customers identify genuine products from counterfeit products. https://oliverpos.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-k-nielsen-9a538531/ https://www.wp-tonic.com

I dedicate this podcast to the memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tom This Week Show's Sponsors+ Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/ Webinar Friday 12th of February LaunchFlows 10:30am PST   #1 - FSE and WordPress Themes: What Does the MVP Look Like? https://wptavern.com/fse-and-wordpress-themes-what-does-the-mvp-look-like #2 - Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/3/22264551/jeff-bezos-amazon-history-timeline-look-back-company https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-s-new-ceo-has-his-head-cloud-so-do-n1256591 #3 - Block Manager Redesign Coming Soon https://wptavern.com/block-manager-redesign-coming-soon #4 - SaaS Churn and Short-Term Customers: The Contrarian View https://sparktoro.com/blog/saas-churn-and-short-term-customers-the-contrarian-view/   #5 - WordPress Launches WP Briefing Podcast, Episodes Expected Every 2 Weeks https://wptavern.com/wordpress-launches-wp-briefing-podcast-episodes-expected-every-2-weeks   #6 - Amazon plans to install always-on surveillance cameras in its delivery vehicles https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/3/22265031/amazon-netradyne-driveri-survelliance-cameras-delivery-monitor-packages

Jamar Ramos is the next generation of Black tech minds to see me in a position of power, running a successful digital marketing agency, and know they can do the same. Hell, that they can do BETTER. If you'd like to be an ally in that, look at your hiring practices. Look internally and find the Black women and men working for you. Take them to lunch and ask how they're doing. Find out if they know any other Black women and men who they feel belong in tech. Hire those people. It's not that hard to get diversity in tech. You don't need a fancy Head of Diversity and Inclusion to do it. You just need to open your eyes and mind to the possibility your hiring has excluded Black women and men. Black trans women and men matter. Black women and men matter. Black boys and girls matter. https://www.wp-tonic.com

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber

Heather Renze is CTO of ROCeteer, and is also known as the "Unicorn Whisperer" due to her special focus on entrepreneurs. She is a personal and professional growth expert, executive coach, author, and speaker. As a founding employee of Evernote, she oversaw the company's growth from thousands to 100,000,000 customers. She is one of the only women to have wholly programmed, designed, produced, and published a game at the company THQ. Additionally, she has worked with the U.S. Navy, NASA and state and local governments around the world. She has led the development, scalability, and reliability engineering of web sites with 60+ million unique monthly visitors, 1.7+ billion monthly page views, and 99.99% uptime SLA requirements. Among her other awards, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid selected her for a commendation in 2016 for her work in increasing STEM education in schools. Wilde's writing and speaking span social media, entrepreneurialism, startups, leadership, cybersecurity, customer experience, fundraising, and diversity issues. She writes for Forbes and hosts the "Entrepreneurial Revolution" column for Inc Magazine. Birth of a Unicorn: Six Basic Steps to Success https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Q7DTVH1/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 http://roceteer.com/ https://thedifferenceconsulting.com/ https://evernote.com/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber   This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/   #1 - What I Learned Building a Full-Site Editing Theme https://wpdevelopment.courses/articles/full-site-editing-theme-learnings/ #2 - Tech rallies behind Biden’s immigration plans https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/20/22240924/big-tech-joe-biden-immigration-bill-facebook-apple-google-executive-order   #3 - I Spell It WordPress Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XknZy3zXvo https://mattreport.com/i-spell-it-wordpress-now-automattic-selling-4900-websites/   #4 - The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/tiktok-bans-multilevel-marketing-mlm/617422/   #5 - Custom Layouts Plugin Creates a Posts Display System for Both the Classic and Block Editors https://wptavern.com/custom-layouts-plugin-creates-a-posts-display-system-for-both-the-classic-and-block-editors   #6 - Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/

Patrick Gallagher Patrick is obsessed with behavioral economics and its implications across every level of business and marketing. Every day he works to integrate those insights into his clients’ businesses and their lives. Our goals invariably are focused around driving more traffic, better conversions, and higher revenues, but what he really wants is for the people that work with him is the same thing that he wants for himself: a systematized business, built on unfair advantages, that provides autonomy and time freedom. https://gridpane.com/

Every Friday at 8:30 am PST we host the WP-Tonic Round-table Show where we discuss the latest WordPress and the general web news of the week. You can watch LIVE the show on our WP-Tonic Show Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/wptonic please also support the show by going to our YouTube channel and subscribing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiUEZxnxscyWKHJxgeFD2oA?view_as=subscriber   This Week Show's Sponsors Kinsta: https://kinsta.com/ LaunchFlow: https://launchflows.com/   #1 - WordPress Proposal To Align Release Cycle With Industry Standard https://wptavern.com/wordpress-proposal-to-align-release-cycle-with-industry-standard #2 - Stupid https://www.profgalloway.com/stupid #3 - Competition and positioning for WordPress products in 2021 and beyond https://getellipsis.com/blog/positioning-for-wordpress-products/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issue-196 #4 - The biggest story in tech no ones talking about is Uber discovering they’d been defrauded out of $100M - or 2/3 of their ad spend. https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345774768746852353 #5 - Damn. Gutenberg Smokes Elementor https://theadminbar.com/damn-gutenberg-smokes-elementor/ #6 - Sandhills Development 2020 Year in Review https://sandhillsdev.com/2021/01/2020-year-in-review/