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Thank you for your vote

Thanks in large part to your support, Automattic and WordPress won both of the prizes it was nominated for, WordPress winning Most Likely to Succeed and Toni Schneider of Automattic winning Best CEO. Woot!

Like I said from stage, to us the awards aren’t an accomplishment, they’re a challenge. You believe in us, and it’s our responsibility to live up to the honor you voted us into. Thank you for your support, everyone.

The event was a lot of fun too, like an Oscars but for geeks, some of whom accepted their awards in hoodies and jeans. I also think only at geek awards do you not have to worry about speeches going on too long. :)

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by Matt

Posted: Sunday, January 20th, 2008 at 6:14 am. Filed in WordPress.com.
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  1. thebeanbag
    Jan 20th at 6:37 am

    Yay! Congratulations :)
    Lol at short geek speeches.

  2. Odale
    Jan 20th at 6:41 am

    Congratulations! You earned it and we Thank You!

  3. Wayward Fundamentalist Christian
    Jan 20th at 6:42 am

    Congrads dude…. y’all earned it. I loved WordPress when I had my domain. I believe my drupal was the cause of my hack. Lesson Learned. Free hosting always has it’s risks.

    Now change that silly avatar, Matt, Christmas has been over for, what now? 26 days?!!
    :P

  4. Sabah Hussain
    Jan 20th at 6:55 am

    Awesome! Contratulations to you and to all of us.

  5. celticprincess©
    Jan 20th at 6:58 am

    Congratulations!!! You guys are the best and deserve it.

  6. Haniey
    Jan 20th at 7:17 am

    congratulation! i vote for WP!

  7. Richmond
    Jan 20th at 7:30 am

    Nice new Avatar.

    I was not able to vote. I wasn’t online for like three weeks. Im sorry.

  8. americanuck
    Jan 20th at 7:36 am

    Congrats!

  9. Víctor
    Jan 20th at 7:39 am

    kwel.

  10. qazse
    Jan 20th at 7:42 am

    It is well deserved.

  11. lnxwalt
    Jan 20th at 7:45 am

    KQKL! (Cool!)

  12. Gloomy Slipper
    Jan 20th at 7:49 am

    What can I say? Congratulations. People didn’t vote without the reason.

  13. MyScribbles: Write-ups of an Afghan
    Jan 20th at 7:52 am

    Congratulations!

  14. anitz
    Jan 20th at 8:31 am

    A hearty congratulations from Germany!

    You all deserve it, awesome work!

    Ich blogge auf deutsch mit WordPress. I blog in German.

    (and no, I do not think you are geeks!)

  15. Chittaranjan
    Jan 20th at 8:42 am

    Yay! Congratulations……

  16. raincoaster
    Jan 20th at 8:45 am

    I certainly figured you were a shoe-in for Most Likely to Succeed. I mean, when your competitors are recommending to their staff that they use WordPress for their blogs (and they are, I heard them!), you gotta know you set the standard in the field.

    But Matt, who designed your outfit?

  17. bahman.n@gmail.com
    Jan 20th at 8:48 am

    Be happy Matt,
    No problem ;)

  18. juleslife
    Jan 20th at 9:00 am

    Well deserved Win mates! Cheers!

  19. Jozii
    Jan 20th at 9:49 am

    Congrats WP :D

  20. deftoned
    Jan 20th at 10:29 am

    Congrats! xD

  21. R.
    Jan 20th at 10:41 am

    Kudos, on both awards! :D

  22. sadorg
    Jan 20th at 10:49 am

    Congratulations! :D

  23. luisindepels
    Jan 20th at 10:52 am

    in dutch we’ll say proficiat!

  24. danalingga
    Jan 20th at 11:23 am

    Congrat,

    Hope this service will be forever. :D

  25. J€LL¥
    Jan 20th at 11:23 am

    wat prize did u get? anyway good on u wordpress! :)

  26. vineetgupta
    Jan 20th at 11:25 am

    Congrats!! Keep rocking!

  27. Michell Bak
    Jan 20th at 11:31 am

    Congratulations, Matt and the rest of the WP team :-)

  28. ezporter
    Jan 20th at 11:35 am

    Congrats WP! Nothing but great things from here on out, I just know it.

  29. æis
    Jan 20th at 11:41 am

    Congratulations!

  30. Pr. Dorin
    Jan 20th at 11:57 am

    I am very happy for your and our excelency! WordPress is a incontestably leader on the online market and I am very happy that I contribute to it’s development.

  31. Federico
    Jan 20th at 12:01 pm

    Congratulations Matt!

  32. psburton
    Jan 20th at 12:06 pm

    Strong work and with the wealth and fame to follow remember to buy your folks nice stuff, lots of nice stuff.

  33. Srikanth Perinkulam
    Jan 20th at 12:22 pm

    Congoz WP team! :-)

  34. ~m
    Jan 20th at 12:22 pm

    congrats and deservedly so.
    You guys rock.

  35. Richard
    Jan 20th at 12:22 pm

    Well done! You deserve it. :P

  36. the forester
    Jan 20th at 12:58 pm

    Hurrah! I like it when my vote wins! I’ve definitely appreciated the professionalism and dedication to progress here at WordPress. Press on!

  37. JunP
    Jan 20th at 1:07 pm

    Congratulations WordPress!

  38. susanta
    Jan 20th at 1:22 pm

    Congratulation

  39. RupertGee
    Jan 20th at 1:22 pm

    恭喜你们！

  40. christopher
    Jan 20th at 1:29 pm

    Congratulations on the recognition for what we already knew about you guys!!

    Hope to have a relationship with wordpress for a good long time!

    -C

  41. slimball2007
    Jan 20th at 1:38 pm

    Congrats WP!!!!!! :D

  42. hatmanpepper
    Jan 20th at 1:46 pm

    yay! wordpress is winning :)

  43. cronies
    Jan 20th at 2:04 pm

    Congrats WP n’ Toni Schneider n’ yw! :D

  44. singapor3
    Jan 20th at 2:04 pm

    Congrats!

    You guys deserved the win!

  45. R. Malfatti Redazione
    Jan 20th at 2:10 pm

    One wins because he is the best. We, the people of WordPress (staff and users), are the best. And I think that tomorrow we’ll better than today….Is not it?

  46. Morris
    Jan 20th at 2:12 pm

    Congratulations guys, and thanks!

  47. servigratis
    Jan 20th at 2:26 pm

    Deserved prizes, indeed…
    Congrats!

  48. Galois
    Jan 20th at 2:28 pm

    Congratulations! I vote for WP too.
    Best regards from Spain. :)

  49. whyamistilltyping
    Jan 20th at 2:33 pm

    *tips hat :)

  50. Camilo López Darias
    Jan 20th at 2:41 pm

    Congratulations, Word Press!

    and…Thank YOU…

  51. Hawk
    Jan 20th at 2:41 pm

    KUDOS & ACCOLADES ALL AROUND – NOW, DID YOU BREAK OUT THE SINGLE MALT & FIRE UP A GOOD HAND-ROLLED CIGAR??

    NICE JOB GANG!

  52. Werner Trotter
    Jan 20th at 2:41 pm

    Congratulations. Two well deserved prizes.

  53. the rufus
    Jan 20th at 2:42 pm

    Well done – keep on :!:

  54. Yaser
    Jan 20th at 2:48 pm

    Congratulations

  55. Khürt
    Jan 20th at 2:55 pm

    Congratulations! Well deserved.

  56. fookembug
    Jan 20th at 3:05 pm

    Congrats!

  57. bookbabie
    Jan 20th at 3:06 pm

    Your welcome, I really enjoy my WordPress blog. I switched from LJ because the format here was clean and easy to use. Thanks for all your efforts to make this a good place to call home on the web:)

  58. darvish
    Jan 20th at 3:15 pm

    Congratulations to you all who work so hard to make wordpress so great :)

    Peace and Blessings!

  59. khairy1974
    Jan 20th at 3:20 pm

    Well deserved award to WordPress…..

  60. cheezdog
    Jan 20th at 3:43 pm

    YES!!!!!! GO WP!

  61. fujimori
    Jan 20th at 3:52 pm

    standing applause for WP..!!!!

  62. Narayanan Aier
    Jan 20th at 3:57 pm

    Awesome! Congrats! Hope u guys keep up the good work!

  63. oberon92
    Jan 20th at 4:06 pm

    Well done! You deserve it.

  64. Tanuki I
    Jan 20th at 4:25 pm

    Congratulations! :P

  65. jeremiahandrews
    Jan 20th at 4:35 pm

    YAY,

    I was honored to vote. Congrats.

    Jeremy

  66. flynnsblogs
    Jan 20th at 4:44 pm

    Whoo-hooo! Congratulations to you and us geeks, nerds and dorks. :D

  67. Cross
    Jan 20th at 4:46 pm

    Thanks to you, because you make our blogging experience better than never, Congratulations WP && Automattic Team!

  68. Muffin
    Jan 20th at 4:57 pm

    cool, congrats! I wish I could win something…
    ~Adam

  69. ضَرَبان
    Jan 20th at 4:59 pm

    All The Best .

  70. Graser103
    Jan 20th at 5:24 pm

    Hey

    congratulations!!!!!

    Adam G

  71. hairballs
    Jan 20th at 5:25 pm

    congradulations on your win!

  72. Arvind Juneja
    Jan 20th at 5:29 pm

    congrats!

  73. infinitygoods
    Jan 20th at 5:31 pm

    Congratulations!! It’s exactly because you consider these awards to be a challenge that you absolutely deserve them. Glad you won’t be sleeping on those laurels and will continue to come up with more great improvements as usual.
    Wishing you all a great day!

  74. bruisinraincloud
    Jan 20th at 5:43 pm

    congrads!

    Well deserved! :D

  75. Spurs1996
    Jan 20th at 5:45 pm

    Well done! I voted for you! You definetely deserved it!

  76. WBMT
    Jan 20th at 5:56 pm

    earned and deserved! congrats, WP is god-send. Guess what my 08′ budget is for web developement/mangement & updates…zero!

    thank you, thank you, thank you! from an independent filmmaker

    What Black Men Think

  77. Marie D.
    Jan 20th at 6:00 pm

    Congrats! That is well-deserved!

  78. insidesportsgeek
    Jan 20th at 6:15 pm

    w00t ! BIG congrats WordPress Team.

  79. tmulcahy
    Jan 20th at 6:44 pm

    Cool! I had no problem voting for Word Press as most likely to succeed; seems to me it already has, and will be around for the long haul.

  80. Father Joe
    Jan 20th at 7:09 pm

    You have done great work and deserve recognition.

    Congratulations!

  81. یک فتحی
    Jan 20th at 7:12 pm

    Congratulations our matt!
    oh,also new Avater is very nice.

  82. skykid
    Jan 20th at 7:30 pm

    Congrats! Well deserved indeed .

  83. mdking
    Jan 20th at 7:43 pm

    Hey, I voted for you. :) Big Congrats!

  84. janien
    Jan 20th at 7:46 pm

    Congratulations, WordPress! ;-)

  85. storymode
    Jan 20th at 7:49 pm

    Much congratulations to you on accepting the challenge! You all are doing a wonderful job!

  86. dandare
    Jan 20th at 7:58 pm

    Well done! you deserve it, for all your hard work :)

  87. Coolgirl
    Jan 20th at 8:04 pm

    Congrats!

  88. massmeeting
    Jan 20th at 8:08 pm

    Congratulations, Matt!

  89. Jen
    Jan 20th at 8:09 pm

    Congrats! I voted :)

  90. Michael Graham Richard
    Jan 20th at 8:10 pm

    Congrats! Now you *gotta* rise up to the challenge :)

  91. mamaneeds2rant
    Jan 20th at 8:27 pm

    Way 2 go! I Love geeks! <3

  92. sugali
    Jan 20th at 8:30 pm

    Congrads! well done, keep up the very excellent work and most of all a heaty Thank You

  93. Cy1i7|-|ri4
    Jan 20th at 8:45 pm

    w00t for you guys!! Congrats

  94. Belinda
    Jan 20th at 8:47 pm

    well done, i enjoy wp. still hoping for the links widget to split up … :)

  95. FXSmom
    Jan 20th at 9:05 pm

    way to go :)

  96. darkophoto
    Jan 20th at 9:20 pm

    WOW, you mean our votes actually counted? :D

    Congratz, WordPress deserved it so well.

    Hip hip… Hurray!

  97. advertboy
    Jan 20th at 9:21 pm

    love the service WP provides and thus voted for you guys… was well deserved!

  98. Julio Azevedo
    Jan 20th at 9:37 pm

    A hearty congratulations from brazil………

  99. Rafael Martel
    Jan 20th at 10:06 pm

    You deserve it guys! Thanks for creating this! Congrats!

  100. familyforest
    Jan 20th at 10:26 pm

    Yeah!!! Congratulations WordPress.

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