About Matt Mullenweg
Howdy. My name is Matthew Mullenweg. According to Google I am the #1
most important Matt in the world, but really I'm just a kid born and raised in Houston, Texas. I write code, prose, and music. I've taken a few pictures too.
WordPress
I am the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs much of this site and thousands of other sites around the world. The website says WordPress is "a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform" but more importantly WordPress is a part of who I am. Like eating, breathing, music, I can't not work on WordPress. The project touches a lot of people, something I've recently begun to appreciate. I consider myself very lucky to be able to work on something I love so much.
I wrote the foreword to WordPress for Dummies.
Professional
I used to do consulting and go to school in Houston, then I moved to San Francisco where I worked at CNET Networks.
I left in late 2005 to found a new startup Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet, and more to come. I'm also an advisor to Sphere and WeGame.
Some Press
If you need a press/conference headshot, try this or any of these (warning large page).
- Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on Funding and Futures - 2008-02-05
- Prologue theme - 2008-01-28
- Houston Chronicle - For a native of Houston, the big time, comments - 2008-01-28
- Automattic Series B - GigaOM, New York Times, Techcrunch, Wall Street Journal, Venturebeat, Techmeme - 2007-01-22.
- La Nacion - Matt Mullenweg, el chico Web (Spanish) - 2007-12-20
- Blog Talk Radio - 2007-12-05
- Random Bits Podcast - 2007-11-19
- WordPress Stands for Open Source, Morals, Democracy - 2008-11-13
- WebProNews Video Interview at BlogWorld Expo - 2007-11-09
- The Guardian - WordPress makes a stand for open source morality - 2007-10-11
- The Guardian - The office of the future is all around - 2007-10-11
- CNET TV - 2007-09-20
- Blog Interviewer - 2007-09-17
- Interview with Tim Ferriss of the 4-Hour Workweek - 2007-08-21
- Interview with BlogSecurity - 2007-08-14
- Video Wallstrip Chat with Lindsay Campbell - 2007-08-13
- Episode 76 - Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak - 2007-08-07
- Interview with Adriaan Pienaar - 2007-08-02
- Video interview with Anastasia Tubanos - 2007-07-30
- KRON 4 - Brian Shields video report from WordCamp 2007 - 2007-07-22
- The Guardian - Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers - 2007-07-12
- CNET Webware video interviews with Rafe Needleman part one and part two - 2007-05-15
- Sydney Morning Herald - Building a Better Blogosphere - 2007-03-27
- Мэтт Мюлленвег: «Я - самый невезучий игрок в покер» (Russian) - 2007-03-20
- Folksonomy interview - 2007-03-19
- LAist SxSW video interview - 2007-03-14
- PC World 50 Most Important People on the Web (#16) - 2007-03-05
- Changing the Web at 21, Digg comments - 2007-03-04
- Nearthwort Podcast - 2007-02-21
- Brian Oberkirch Edgework Podcast - 2007-02-13
- NY Times - Some Bling for Your Blog - 2007-01-18
- Episode 38 - Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak - 2006-11-29
- El Pais - ENTREVISTA: MATT MULLENWEG, creador de Wordpress (Spanish) - 2006-11-17
- Guardian UK - A Bigger Bang - 2006-11-04
- Episode 31 - Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak - 2006-10-11
- Blogging Pro Interview - 2006-10-30
- Wired Magazine - Spam + Blogs = Trouble - 2006-09-18
- Pro::PHP Webcast - 2006-07-38
- Startup Do's and Don'ts with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic - 2006-05-24
- About.com Entrepreneurs Podcast - 2006-03-20
- Houstonist Interview - 2006-01-27
- Dorm'd interview (podcast) - 2006-01-24
- Yahoo Exec Exits for Automattic CEO Gig - 2006-01-11
- Mullenweg launches Automattic -- to expand WordPress -- scores Yahoo too - 2005-12-20
- Podleaders Thought Leader podcast - 2005-12-16
- SiliconValley.com The Googleverse - 2005-12-09
- About.com - An Interview with Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Creator - 2005-12-07
- Geek Entertainment TV videocast - 2005-11-30
- Geekstars - 2005-11-30
- Red Herring - Blog Service Offered for Free - 2005-11-21
- Blogebrity interview - 2005-10-26
- Web 2.0 Show podcast- 2005-08-30
- SFist Bay Blogger Thursday - 2005-08-12
- Infotalk Podcast with John Furrier- 2005-07-26
- Open Media 100 - 2005-06-23
- Corante - Why collaborate with Open Source tools - 2005-06-04
- RSS Updates Moving Beyond Pings - 2005-05-31
- SJ Mercury News: By Google's ranking, the world's No. 1 Matt - 2005-03-28
- Digital Web Interview - 2004-11-24
- Houston Press - The Blog Age - 2004-10-18
- The Ubergeeks.net - 2004-06-15
Speaking
I enjoy sharing what I know at conferences, here are some I have or will participate in as a speaker. If you're looking for one thing to check out, listen to the BayCHI "first 100k users are alway the hardest" recording, it's one of my best.
- SxSW Interactive Austin - 2008-03-07
- Future of Web Apps Miami - 2008-02-28
- The Architecture of Wordpress
- Northern Voice Vancouver - 2008-02-23
- Keynote - Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here?
- SVASE- 2008-02-07
- Customer Service is the New Marketing
- 2008-02-04
- Customer Service as Community - video
- BlogWorld Expo - 2007-11-08
- Keynote
- Buenos Aires WordCamp Argentina - 2007-10-29
- Keynote
- Future of Web Apps London - 2007-10-03
- Architecture of WordPress.com. slides - mp3
- WordCamp San Francisco- 2007-07-21
- Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Santa Clara - 2007-07-06
- Web 2.0 and Beyond
- LT Pact Las Vegas - 2007-06-27
- Marketing Power: Seize SEO, Blogs and Other Techniques
- Greek Blogger Camp
- Keynote
- SxSW 2007 - 2007-03-12
- Evento Blog España - 2006-11-17
- Keynote
- Yahoo TechDev talk - 2006-11-10
- Beyord 100k Users?
- Blog Business Summit - 2006-10-25
- The Future of Blogging: Tools and Trends
- Office 2.0 Conference -
2006-10-12
- Managing Blogs & Wikis in the Enterprise
- Blogtalk Vienna - 2006-10-03
- Future of Web Apps San Francisco - 2006-09-13
- BayCHI - 2006-08-08
- WordCamp - 2006-08-05
- State of the Word
- Webvisions - 2006-07-20
- Scaling for Your First 100k Users
- Mesh Conference - 2006-05-15 (Toronto, Canada)
- Is Web 2.0 Changing the Software Industry?
- SDForum Palo Alto - 2006-04-17
- Oddpost and WordPress/Automattic
- iSummit 2006 (Toronto, Canada) - 2006-03-28
- We/Me Media: When YOU are the Content
- Barcamp Austin — Open Source panel
- SxSW 2006
- Northern Voice
- A Modest Proposal for Comment Spam
- Getting Started with Blogging
- MooseCamp
- Open Source CMS Conference - 2006-02-06
- 10 Reasons to Use WordPress as Your Next CMS
- Web 2.0 Conference (San Francisco, CA)
- Open Source Infrastructure
- Webzine
- Making Media with Open Source tools
- Blog Wares Dance Off
- Blogging Enterprise (Austin, TX)
- RSS and Syndication (write-up)
- Bar Camp Palo Alto (original)
- Organizer
- Blogging Business Summit (San Francisco, CA)
- Gnomedex (Seattle, WA)
- Tomorrow's Open Source
- Collaborative Technologies (New York, NY)
- Open Source panel
- Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2005
- Unstoppable Speech (or, The Revolution Will Be Podcast)
- Voice on the Net VON 2005
- Podcasting BOF Dinner (very small)
- SxSW Interactive 2005
Selected Affiliations
- WordPress
- Ping-O-Matic
- Global Media Protocols Group
- Microformats.org
- Automattic
- bbPress
- Web Standards Project
- Digital Web Magazine (PHP for Designers)
Formerly
- Houston Palm Users Group
- Verve Creative Partner
- Networking Works
- CNET Networks
