1. Matthew Charles Mullenweg was born on January 11,1984 and is an American web developer and entrepreneur.
20 Facts About Matt Mullenweg
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Matt Mullenweg is known as a co-founder of the free and open-source web publishing software WordPress, and the founder of Automattic.
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Mullenweg was born January 11,1984, in Houston, Texas, to Chuck and Kathleen Mullenweg and grew up in the Willowbend neighborhood.
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Matt Mullenweg attended Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, studying jazz and playing the saxophone.
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Matt Mullenweg suffered from migraines as a child that forced him to miss extended periods of school.
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Matt Mullenweg attended the University of Houston for two years, studying philosophy and political science.
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Matt Mullenweg dropped out after his sophomore year in 2004 to work for CNET, which promised him that he could allocate time to the development of WordPress.
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Matt Mullenweg began blogging in 2002 on the open source platform b2.
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B2 developer Michael Valdrighi abandoned the project and Matt Mullenweg took it over in 2003.
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Matt Mullenweg dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco for the position.
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Matt Mullenweg left CNET in October 2005 to focus on WordPress full-time.
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In 2011, Matt Mullenweg purchased the WordPress news website WP Tavern.
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Matt Mullenweg received the Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment in 2016, for "helping to democratize online publishing".
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On several occasions, Matt Mullenweg has publicly challenged competitors to WordPress and WordPress.
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Matt Mullenweg has stated that he prefers to settle disputes in the court of public opinion and described his approach as "brinksmanship", noting that the potential cost of legal action could put Automattic in a "tough spot".
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In 2022, Matt Mullenweg criticized GoDaddy for not reinvesting in the WordPress project sufficiently.
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Matt Mullenweg began a three-month sabbatical from his role as CEO at the beginning of February 2024.
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Matt Mullenweg responded to individual commenters on Tumblr in posts and direct messages, and went to Twitter to respond to the banned user's tweets about the situation.
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Matt Mullenweg is a principal at angel investment firm Audrey Capital, which he co-founded in 2008 alongside Naveen Selvadurai and Audrey Kim.
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From 2017 to 2019, Matt Mullenweg served as a board member for GitLab.