The line between the open source project WordPress and the company Automattic is often blurry. You can find journalists referring to the latter as owning the former, despite that not being true. The person who resigned a couple of week as the Marketing and Communications Lead for WordPress mentioned that they were often assumed to be an Automattic employee or as the token non-Automattic team member:

My position is unclear, not just to me, but to many people which makes me uncomfortable. I’ve been asked dozens of times on Twitter, Facebook and at WordCamps why I now work for Automattic, which of course I don’t but that is the perception for a lot of people. On other occasions I seem to be the token non-Automattician, which I’m also uncomfortable with. [Read more]