GoDaddy Acquires Pagely to Deploy New WooCommerce SaaS Product
GoDaddy has acquired managed WordPress hosting company Pagely to expand the company’s expertise in hosting WooCommerce stores. Pagely, co-founded by Joshua and Sally Strebel, has been in business for 18 years, offering hosting for businesses and enterprises at the higher end of the managed hosting market. “We will be working closely with the amazing team of WooCommerce experts from SkyVerge (previous GoDaddy acquisition) on the GoDaddy commerce team to deploy a world-class WooCommerce SaaS aimed at powersellers,” Pagely co-founder and CEO Joshua Strebel said in a post titled “We Did It.” Strebel said Pagely received more than a dozen offers to buy the company over the years and was given the “choice of every suitor in the space.” This particular offer was the third from GoDaddy. “We poured our heart and soul into Pagely, and PressNomics, and the market responded,” Strebel said. “First, shown by our own success and then that of all the followers that came along after. We built a company with industry-leading everything – that our employees and customers love and respect, and despite our diminutive size in comparison to the VC fueled giants, those same entities could not ignore us. And that pushed the entire channel to improve and…
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