Matt Will
Matt Will
technology people together
Technology is best when it brings people together.
together months dollars
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
ideas oxygen usage
Usage is like oxygen for ideas.
focus too-short lifes-too-short
Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.
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.
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.
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.