🚀 PRESS Talks: The 3Q Interview with Jesse Friedman on Innovation, WP Cloud & Open Source Partnerships 💡 

In this episode of PRESS Talks: The 3Q Interview, Christos Paloukas chats with Jesse Friedman, Heap of WP Cloud and Director of Innovation and Partnership Success at Jetpack, about rethinking WordPress through the lens of education, cloud hosting, and sustainable community collaboration. 

🔥 Topics covered: 

✔️ How Jesse's background in education influences product innovation in WordPress 
✔️ The vision behind WP Cloud & what makes it stand out in the hosting space 
✔️ Challenges and opportunities in building strategic partnerships within open source 

📌 Key Takeaways: 

🔹 Creating products that balance user experience with long-term flexibility 
🔹 Why Jetpack isn’t “bloated”—and the deeper philosophy behind its architecture 
🔹 The crucial role of partnerships in making WordPress thrive over the next decade 
🔹 How the open source ethos drives not just code—but collaboration and trust. 

📍 Where to find Jesse Friedman:
🌐 Website: https://jesse.blog
𝕏 X: https://x.com/Professor
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesserfriedman/

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