Avishai Abrahami is founder and CEO of Wix.com.

Avishai and his co-founders developed the Wix platform as a result of their frustration with the complexities of website creation.

Prior to founding Wix in 2006, Avishai led several successful start-ups as founder/senior manager, including the software company AIT, which he founded in 1994 and sold in 1997.

From AIT, Avishai then moved to co-found Sphera Corporation in 1998 - a software company that offers an automation platform for hosting companies.

Sphera Corporation was acquired by SWsoft, Inc. in 2007.

During this time Avishai was also VP Strategic Alliances at Arel Communication and Software (ArelCom).

Avishai was part of the team that successfully sold this business in 2006.

Avishai lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Beef With Matt Mullenweg

In October 2016, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg accused Wix of stealing code from Wordpress.

Avishai wrote an open letter to Mullenweg, saying that what had been used was open source code.

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