WordCamp Asia 2025 Recap: A New Era for Freemius and Uncertain Times for WordPress
Happy to report that I got safely back home from WordCamp Asia 2025. As always, it was a wild and wonderful time catching up with old friends, making new ones,…
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WordCamp Europe 2024 Wrap-Up: A Superb Occasion with Acquisition Opportunities and Well-Priced Sponsorships for Smaller Makers
Ciao, tutti! I’m glad to report that I got safely back home from Turin. WordCamp Europe 2024 was productive, fun, and insightful. I caught up with old friends and made…
WordCamp Asia 2024 Recap: More Commercial, Less Investment, but Still a Blast
Phew! I’m finally back home from Taiwan. I made meaningful new connections at WordCamp Asia 2024 and caught up with old friends. Our Makers’ Meetup was the biggest success so…
CEO Kim Gjerstad: How MailPoet Became the Email Leader for WordPress
Just as I was leaving the Freemius + WP Engine Makers Meetup last year at WordCamp US in St. Louis, Founder and CEO of MailPoet, Kim Gjerstad, stopped me at…
Is WordCamp Dying…or Not? Valuable Takeaways from WCUS 2019 in St. Louis
This WordCamp, I heard some pretty tough feedback from other attendees, especially from veteran campers that have been attending WordCamps for years. In particular, I heard that the venue was…
WCEU 2019: My First WordCamp Experience with the Freemius Team
While the Freemius CEO Vova Feldman has been networking with cool people at WordCamps for years, there were a lot of “firsts” for me at WCEU 2019. Not only was…