Thinking Through the WP Engine Acquisition of StudioPress

As a fun thought exercise I decided to think through the WP Engine and Studio Press acquisition. Specifically, what I would do, and think they will do, with the new asset. While I know all the parties, I have less than zero knowledge about the deal or intentions. In other words, this is pure conjecture…

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The Lost Art of Making Decisions

At the end of one of my keynotes last year I was asked: Tony, how did you know what decision to make? In war, there is nothing worse than a leader that can’t make a decision. People die. While not as dire in business, your indecisiveness will slowly kill your product, your team, your moment, and…

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Analyzing Sucuri’s 2017 Hacked Website Trend Report

Security

The Sucuri team just released  their first annual security report that looks at telemetry from hacked websites – Hacked Website Report 2017. It uses a representative sample of infected websites from the Sucuri customer base to better understand end-user behavior and bad-actor tactics. It specifically focuses on 34,371 infected websites, aggregating data from two distinct…

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Don’t fear failure. Embrace Your Scars. 

I was recently asked what I would tell myself if I could go back ten years. Why are the simplest questions, the most difficult to answer? For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out why it was so hard to answer. Everything I thought of felt shallow; as if it was either not impactful…

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