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
care child hours late pick school sleep work
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.
good hard otherwise single treading work
If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
work
Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
best people work
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
discern personally whether work
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
san-francisco work-out factories
130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
ideas work-out entrepreneur
I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.
model work
If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
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.