Quotes by Matt Mullenweg

About Matt Mullenweg:

Matthew Charles "Matt" Mullenweg is an American online social media entrepreneur, web developer and musician living in San Francisco. He is best known for developing the free and open source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation. His professional blog is ma.tt, a domain hack.
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Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Matt Mullenweg

Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'?

Matt Mullenweg

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

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The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.

Matt Mullenweg

Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.

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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.

Matt Mullenweg

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

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There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

Matt Mullenweg

I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!

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There's something very real about helping someone one-on-one.

Matt Mullenweg

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.

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When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.

Matt Mullenweg

When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?

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Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

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For WordPress to be world class, it needs to have a sustainable model.

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Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.

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I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

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I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.

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I'm pretty cheap, to be honest.

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Longreads embodies a lot of what we really value with Automattic and WordPress.

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Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

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Author Bio

  • NameMatt Mullenweg
  • DescriptionAmerican entrepreneur
  • BornJanuary 11, 1984
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Programmer; Computer Scientist; Musician; Blogger