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
computers everybody needing
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
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In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.
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The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buying servers.
beauty pick
The beauty of open-source is that you can pick up right where someone left off and start right there.
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The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.
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I'm really good at making software for publishing.
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I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
allow hope life people
I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.
I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.
home
No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.
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It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.
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What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients.
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Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
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Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.