Matt Mullenweg Quotes

Matthew Charles "Matt" Mullenweg is an American online social media entrepreneur and web developer living in San Francisco. He is best known for developing the free and open-source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation.

After dropping out of the University of Houston, he worked at CNET Networks from 2004 to 2006 until he quit and founded Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com , Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Polldaddy, and more.

✵ 11. January 1984
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Famous Matt Mullenweg Quotes

“I don’t have a Wikiquotes page.”

Personal Blog http://ma.tt/2011/01/now-on-wikiquotes/, Now On Wikiquotes, January 2011

“We are much better at writing code than haiku.”

http://automattic.com/ Automattic Home Page

“The first 3 years the focus would be entirely on […] building a rock solid infrastructure.”

Ma.tt http://ma.tt/2009/08/starting-a-bank/, Starting a Bank, August 2009

“Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible…even if it sucks.”

BayCHI Podcast http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20060808a#2, The first 100k users are always the hardest, August 2006

“Usage is like oxygen for ideas.”

Ma.tt http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/, 1.0 is the Loneliest Number, November 2010

Matt Mullenweg Quotes

“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.”

Steppin' off the Edge http://steppinofftheedge.com/podcast/philosophy-of-open-source/, Podcast Interview, January 2011

“My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.”

Big Omaha http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2010/12/big-omaha-video-series-matt-mullenweg-robert-scoble, Conference Interview, May 2010

“There's no financial aspect to stats.”

Plugin: WordPress.com Stats contains Quantserve Code in Javascript http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-quantserve-code-in-stats-javascript#post-1815273, WordPress forum discussion, December 2010

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