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#439 WP-Tonic Round-Table Show on Friday 18th of October, at 8:30am PST #1 - Mark Davies Joins Automattic as Chief Financial Officer https://wptavern.com/mark-davies-joins-automattic-as-chief-financial-officer   #2 - LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/linkedin-gets-physical-debuts-new-events-hub-for-people-to-plan-in-person-networking-events/ #3 - Postmortem Of Gutenberg The Launch, So We Can Embrace Gutenberg The Product https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/10/postmortem-gutenberg-launch-product/   #4 - Mark Zuckerberg will stream a speech on ‘free expression’ Thursday https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/16/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-free-speech-live-stream/   #5 - What’s New in WordPress 5.3 (New Blocks, New APIs, Improved Admin UI) https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-5-3/

Adrian (my co-host) last week went to CaboPress and in this show we discuss some of the main things he learnt during the week. What you get from CaboPress is actionable input. Practical and direct insight that can be applied to your business the day you get home. No high level platitudes or pontification. Just the questions and suggestions to challenge you to level up. If you're going to meet with folks that will challenge you, what better place to do it in than in a five-star resort in Cabo San Lucas. It's refreshing and relaxing and the perfect place to reflect on your business.   https://cabopress.com/

#1 - Open Source is Broken https://dev.to/degoodmanwilson/open-source-is-broken-g60 #2 - The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html #3 - Where We Go From Here: 10 Thoughts on the Immediate Future of the Web https://mor10.com/where-we-go-from-here-2019/ #4 - The Gutenberg WordPress Block Editor: The First Year https://speckyboy.com/gutenberg-wordpress-block-editor-first-year/ #5 - U.S. Supreme Court Denies Domino’s Appeal to Determine Whether Websites Must Be Accessible https://wptavern.com/u-s-supreme-court-denies-dominos-appeal-to-determine-whether-websites-must-be-accessible The Panel Morten Rand-Hendriksen morten@pinkandyellow.com John Locke john@lockedowndesign.com Sallie Goetsch sallie@wpfangirl.com Chris Badgett chris@lifterlms.com Spencer Forman help@wplaunchify.com Matt Medeiros mattmedeiros@gmail.com Adrian adrian.methoss@gmail.com jonathan jdenwood@gmail.com Joe Casabona casabona.org  

Andrew has been a leading thought leader inside the Divi community for a number of years but also runs a number of niche businesses that are linked to Divi.   Recently he has started with a founder a really interesting service called Pagebuildercloud which is services that allow you save Elementor, BeaverBuilder and a number of other page builder plugin templates to the cloud so you can use them early connected to other projects.   https://pagebuildercloud.com https://elegantmarketplace.com https://somebodyshero.co.uk

With Special Guest Panelist Kim Shivler #1 - The REWORK podcast Discussion Between Matt Mullenweg and David Hansson one of the founders BaseCamp and Ruby on Rails https://rework.fm/open-source-and-power-with-matt-mullenweg/ Matt Medeiros is interviewed by Brian Krogsgard of the Post Status Fear and uncertainty for WordPress, with Matt Medeiros https://poststatus.com/fear-and-uncertainty-for-wordpress-with-matt-medeiros/   #2 - All Hands On Desk https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20756701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-leak-audio-ftc-antitrust-elizabeth-warren-tiktok-comments #3 - Brian Gardner Steps Down From StudioPress https://wptavern.com/brian-gardner-steps-down-from-studiopress #4 -Inside Uber’s plan to take over city life with CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Morten Rand-Hendriksen pinkandyellow.com John Locke lockedowndesign.com Sallie Goetsch wpfangirl.com Chris Badgett lifterlms.com Spencer Forman wplaunchify.com Matt Medeiros matt-report.com Adrian groundhogg.co jonathan wp-tonic.com Joe Casabona casabona.org  

About Mojca Marš When was the last time you were really satisfied with your Facebook Advertising results? So satisfied in fact that you had absolutely no problem with increasing your investment? Times have changed. Boosting a Facebook post or launching a simple campaign isn’t enough to succeed anymore. What you need is a clear plan and a strategy. We will help you redefine your goals and develop a multi-level strategy around them. Each step will be a reflection of your desired goals, which we will achieve with a carefully developed funnel and an organized analytical approach. You will never have to worry about Facebook Ads ever again. Instead, you’ll be able to focus on growing your business without neglecting the marketing side of it. https://superspicymedia.com/

#1 - Gatsby Raises $15M, Plans to Invest More Heavily in WordPress and CMS Integrations https://wptavern.com/gatsby-raises-15m-plans-to-invest-more-heavily-in-wordpress-and-cms-integrations https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/25/duda-nabs-25m-to-take-on-wordpress-with-a-web-development-platform-aimed-at-agencies/ #2 - WeWork Gave Founder Loans as It Paid Him Rent, IPO Filing Shows https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-14/wework-gave-founder-loans-as-it-paid-him-rent-ipo-filing-shows #3 - The End of Jigoshop? What Happened to The Once-Popular Ecommerce WordPress Plugin https://deliciousbrains.com/end-of-jigoshop/ #4 - Diversity, inequality, and prejudice; a sociological exploration https://yoast.com/diversity-inequality-and-prejudice/ #5 - Boston Dynamics’ Spot is leaving the laboratory https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/24/20880511/boston-dynamics-spot-robot-mini-hands-on-lease-buy #6 - How Much Money do Podcasters Make? https://lime.link/blog/how-much-money-do-podcasters-make/ The Panel Morten Rand-Hendriksen pinkandyellow.com John Locke lockedowndesign.com Sallie Goetsch wpfangirl.com Chris Badgett lifterlms.com Spencer Forman wplaunchify.com Matt Medeiros matt-report.com Adrian Tobey groundhogg.co jonathan wp-tonic.com Joe Casabona casabona.org

AppBind is an app that automatically track and securely expense all future charges to your client from a single pane of glass. About AppBind AppBind lets you as an agency manage the procurement of software subscriptions on behalf of your clients. You're the expert recommending software. Why awkwardly ask your clients to purchase things they don't understand? AppBind takes the risk out of agencies buying and managing subscriptions for their clients. We automatically and securely track and expense all the subscription charges to your clients, plus more (like add a management fee or discount, and automatically failover to backup credit cards). About Sunir Sunir is the CEO of AppBind, which is a new service that is transforming the relationship between digital agencies and the software companies they use. AppBind takes the risk out of agencies buying and managing subscriptions for their clients, so agencies can take care of all the software complexity on a project. Sunir is also the President of the Cloud Software Association, the network of 2500 SaaS partnership executives. He's been trying to make it easier for software companies and agencies to serve customers better, together for over 10 years. https://www.appbind.com/#Features   Sunir Shah https://www.appbind.com/#Features

#1 - Automattic’s Series D https://ma.tt/2019/09/series-d/ #2 - The Internet Relies on People Working for Free https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-relies-on-people-working-for-free-a79104a68bcc #3 - Justin Tadlock Joins WP Tavern https://wptavern.com/justin-tadlock-joins-wp-tavern #4 - Marking the end of pixel trackers in Basecamp emails https://m.signalvnoise.com/marking-the-end-of-pixel-trackers-in-basecamp-emails/ #5 - Let’s Make it Official… Introducing WPMU DEV Hosting! https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/introducing-wpmu-dev-hosting/ #6 - Traditional hosting is hurting WordPress https://convesio.com/traditional-hosting-is-hurting-wordpress/ The Panel Morten Rand-Hendriksen pinkandyellow.com John Locke lockedowndesign.com Sallie Goetsch wpfangirl.com Chris Badgett lifterlms.com Spencer Forman wplaunchify.com Matt Medeiros matt-report.com Adrian Tobey groundhogg.co jonathan wp-tonic.com Joe Casabona casabona.org

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