15 Quotes & Sayings By Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is the founder of WordPress.com, a blogging platform used to create and manage blogs. With WordPress, he created a free software for creating websites and blogs that has spread around the world and been translated into dozens of languages. In 2006, he sold WordPress to Automattic, an enterprise company he founded in 2005, for $ []; the transaction was valued at $;. Matt lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter and runs an influential blog on personal development and leadership at mattmullenweg.com.

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Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. Matt Mullenweg
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Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. Matt Mullenweg
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In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world. Matt Mullenweg
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I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months. Matt Mullenweg
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I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. Matt Mullenweg
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In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one. Matt Mullenweg
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Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, we're thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think there's a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things they're making. Matt Mullenweg
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One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on. Matt Mullenweg
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Ubuntu is doing amazing things, and I think it's going to change the face of the desktop. Matt Mullenweg
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When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. Matt Mullenweg
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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. Matt Mullenweg
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The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites. Matt Mullenweg
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The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready. Matt Mullenweg
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In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC. Matt Mullenweg