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
focus too-short lifes-too-short
Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.
care matter skype
I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
organization people quality
If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.
want world online
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.
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.