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
fault goes level point responsibility
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
allowed closed flourish nature open power systems web
The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
blogging ease
When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
model
Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
best platform
What's best for advertisers on Twitter's platform isn't for there to be 20 different clients.
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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.
blocking effective good helped less people secret seemed versus
With Akismet there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective? It seemed more people would be helped by blocking spam.
effective good less secret versus
With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?
amazing change
Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
care child hours late pick school sleep work
I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output.
job markets
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
figure half time
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!
believe good hosting time
Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.