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
hands ideas collaboration
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.
ideas oxygen usage
Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
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.
benefit brief classes favorite loved political rules run science society systems ultimately
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.
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.
term
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.
breed center close freedom gives gravity people power
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.
good
I'm really good at making software for publishing.
time
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.