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.
spend time
I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.
indignant people prefer totally
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
alone
The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
creatively environment huge plays role
Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
design suddenly themes thousands
The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
available offer shortest
Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
good might
Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
frustrated time
Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
travel
When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
vice
Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.