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
killers different features
You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.
entrepreneur decision important
As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.
motivation impact
The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.
want steering ifs
If I'm on the titanic I want to be steering.
simplicity
Simplicity not simplistic.
reading smartphones ipads
From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.
smart dumb designer
For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.
technology opportunity gaps
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
pages
I don't have a Wikiquotes page.
financial aspect
There's no financial aspect to stats.
organization people quality
If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.
want world online
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.
team support healthy
The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.
internet-access cities ubiquity
The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.