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
beyond crude nuances presented reduction
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.
job markets
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
great love
Love is great, but not as a password.
Occasionally, if I'm in a rut, I find changing location helps.
There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.
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.
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.
creatively environment huge plays role
Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
alone
The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
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.
good might
Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
frustrated time
Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
millions people ran
A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.