Matt Will
Matt Will
challenges alternatives done
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.
hands ideas collaboration
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.
killers different features
You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.
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.
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.
want world online
You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.
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.
san-francisco work-out factories
130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
mistake catholic guilty
I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
goes-on want
I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.
dvds missing disappear
When DVDs finally disappear, I'm going to be sad. I'll miss the commentaries.
nice ideas honor
The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.