SF Giant Sweep is a project between San Francisco’s Mayor and the Giants baseball team to help keep the city clean and beautiful. They had a contest for students to enter poster designs. Sophie entered a collage she made from recycled plastic and packaging and she won 1st place for the high school category – how awesome is that! #prouddad Her poster will be displayed around the city to promote the Giant Sweep project (she won some money for herself and her school as well):

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Tiger Global has recently invested over $50M in Automattic secondary stock purchases. After many years of being backed by a great team of investors who have been with Automattic since the early days – Polaris Partners, True Ventures, Radar Partners, and the New York Times Company – Tiger has joined this illustrious group by purchasing shares from early Automattic investors and employees. Along with the on-going growth of WordPress (now powering over 18% of sites on the internet) and the amazing Automattic team (now over 170 employees), this investment is another milestone in our journey towards building a great company.

It’s noteworthy that Tiger has recently invested in companies like SurveyMonkey and Eventbrite, and before that companies like LinkedIn and Facebook. Those names provide a sense of how far Automattic has come and how we’re poised to enter an exclusive circle of successful software companies that are built to last.

Matt has shared his perspective on this deal on Ma.tt.

Enjoying a ride with Ben in the Super 7 (near Stinson Beach):

I had my first ever yoga class today. It was great – outdoors in the sun, very stimulating and relaxing. Thank you Diane for dragging me along and Kate for teaching a great class (and taking it easy on me )!