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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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.
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In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.