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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If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.
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If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.
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I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
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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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In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.
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If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.
For me, open source is a moral thing.
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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
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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.
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Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
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If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.
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When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
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There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
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Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.