In 2013, I sat across from a CTO who told me, with complete sincerity, that using WordPress was a sign of "intellectual weakness."

“Real developers build from scratch,” he said. “If you’re not writing your own CMS, what are you even doing?”

They went bankrupt a year later.

In 2013, I sat across from a CTO who told me, with complete sincerity, that using WordPress was a sign of "intellectual weakness."

“Real developers build from scratch,” he said. “If you’re not writing your own CMS, what are you even doing?”

They went bankrupt a year later.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joanwestenberg_in-2013-i-sat-across-from-a-cto-who-told-activity-7336608709453721601-f5Lg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAFsHzRgBmenrK5Y1VXU7SZD_GfSUiOE-n7Y

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://linktr.ee/joanwestenberg

Probably has a different or same mindset now.