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
good
I'm really good at making software for publishing.
time
I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.
allow hope life people
I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.
exactly existing fit framework great instead maybe social start terms
I don't think BuddyPress will be something you use instead of your existing social networks... but if you wanted to start something new maybe with more control, friendlier terms of service, or just something customized and tweaked to fit exactly into your existing site, then BuddyPress is a great framework to use.
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.
aligned broader flourish open provides seems source
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.
good
It's good to be in a role when you can learn something new.
home
No matter what I do, I always come home to my blog.
heck networks turns
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.
killers different features
You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.
mistake catholic guilty
I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
phones tools digital
WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
powerful people trying
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.