E166 - Why Being a Contrarian Works (Hristo Pandjarov, SiteGround)

WPMRR WordPress Podcast

In today’s episode, Joe talks to Hristo Pandjarov, Manager of WordPress Initiatives at SiteGround - a web hosting company founded in 2004 that provides hosting for about 2,000,000 domains worldwide. Some of the services offered include shared hosting, cloud hosting, enterprise solutions, and domain registration.

Hristo shares what the roles and responsibilities he had and currently have since joining SiteGround, the advantage of building internal plugins versus acquiring existing ones, why site performance impacts the growth of hosting sites, and how consistency in quality has fueled the company through the years.

Episode Resources:

• SiteGround is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube
• Hristo is on Twitter and LinkedIn
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• Visit the WPMRR Community

What to Listen For:

• 00:00 Intro
• 04:06 Welcome to the pod, Hristo!
• 05:43 What’s a WordPress initiatives manager?
• 09:11 Different positions since joining Site Ground
• 14:02 Your passion will take you places
• 17:41 Focus is on site performance
• 23:32 Building plugins internally than acquiring external products
• 30:01 Many who built WordPress products weren't actually business minded people
• 39:44 Partnership with West Ham United
• 44:18 The most important value is quality consistency
• 45:46 Find SiteGround and Hristo online