Matthew Charles Mullenweg was born on January 11,1984 and is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston.
19 Facts About Matt Mullenweg
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Matt Mullenweg is known for developing and founding the free and open-source web software WordPress, and its parent company Automattic.
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Matt Mullenweg was born in Houston, Texas, and attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studied jazz saxophone.
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Matt Mullenweg studied at the University of Houston, majoring in political science, before he dropped out in 2004 to pursue a job at CNET Networks.
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Matt Mullenweg was 19 years old, and a freshman at the University of Houston at the time.
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Matt Mullenweg dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco from Houston, Texas, the following month.
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Matt Mullenweg announced bbPress in December, Matt Mullenweg and the WordPress team released WordPress 1.5 "Strayhorn" in February 2005, which had over 900,000 downloads.
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Matt Mullenweg admitted accepting the questionable advertisement and removed all articles from the domain.
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Matt Mullenweg left CNET in October 2005 to focus on WordPress and related activities full-time, and announced Akismet several days later.
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From 2017 to 2019, Matt Mullenweg served as a board member for GitLab, Inc.
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In July 2008, Matt Mullenweg was featured on the cover of Linux Journal.
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In December 2010, Matt Mullenweg was awarded the Winner of the TechFellow Award in "Product Design and Marketing".
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In March 2011, Matt Mullenweg was named one of the top 10 most influential people online for changing the face of the internet by Business Insider.
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In October 2011, Matt Mullenweg made Vanity Fair's Next Establishment prestigious list of rising talents in tech, media, policy, and business.
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In May 2012, Matt Mullenweg was listed in Forbes Most Influential Angel Investors on AngelList.
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In December 2012, Matt Mullenweg was listed in 2012 Forbes's 30 Under 30 in Media and received the 21st Annual Heinz Awards in Technology, Employment and the Economy in 2016.
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Matt Mullenweg has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
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Matt Mullenweg is a member of The Well at the non-profit "Charity: Water" organization where he supports providing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
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Matt Mullenweg was a major supporter of The Bay Lights project, both as the first donor and later helping to finish the project with a second $1.5 million donation.