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
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The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
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The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.
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It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.
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It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.
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It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.
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Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.
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WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.
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Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.
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Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.
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Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.
good money motivator
Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term.
job million people
There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.
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Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.