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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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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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.
great love
Love is great, but not as a password.
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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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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.
beauty pick
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.