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.
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.
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.
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.