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
great love
Love is great, but not as a password.
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You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
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Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making.
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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.
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.
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Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
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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.