Over the last few weeks, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has made one thing abundantly clear: he is responsible for the future of WordPress.
Mullenweg leads WordPress.com and its parent company Automattic. He is the owner of the WordPress.org project and even heads the charitable foundation that controls the WordPress brand. To the outside observer, these might appear to be independent organizations, each designed separately around the open source WordPress project. But as he wages a battle against WP Engine, a third-party WordPress hosting service, Mullenweg has blurred the lines between three essential entities that lead a sprawling ecosystem that powers nearly half of the web.