Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg
Matthew Charles "Matt" Mullenwegis an American online social media entrepreneur and web developer living in San Francisco. He is best known for developing the free and open source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth11 January 1984
CountryUnited States of America
running wall smart
I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.
ideas oxygen usage
Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
entrepreneur internet ifs
If you make the Internet, live on the internet.
years two people
One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.
together months dollars
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
long ships firsts
If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
technology people together
Technology is best when it brings people together.
ideas oxygen usage
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.
ideas work-out entrepreneur
I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
reading successful people
A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.
believe thinking expression
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.
except hours majority seems vast
The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.
actual change changes google high number phone school
The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a canonical Google Voice number that doesn't change - it's actually my same number from high school - is indispensable.