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
blogging ease
When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
amazing change
Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop.
travel
When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt.
model
Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
early maybe promise technology web website
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
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.
For me, open source is a moral thing.
benevolent design dictator great main mark open source web
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.
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.
work
Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.
believe ideology people personally software strongly
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.
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.
fault goes level point responsibility
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
happens matter redundant services swan unlike whatever
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!