Looking back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic

1 · Tom Preston-Werner · Oct. 27, 2008, midnight
Looking back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic 23 Oct 2008 - San Francisco For an entrepreneur, the line between horrible mistake and runaway success can be so thin that even Kate Moss would be envious. I lived with Gravatar for nearly four years before that line even became thick enough to measure. As it’s become one of my favorite parables, I’ll save the details of how I came up with the idea for Gravatar for a future post. What’s important to know is that the idea was spawned not from a busin...