About Matt Mullenweg

Myself in my best dress 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).

10 questions with Matt Mullenweg - 2008-05-13 Intruders.tv - Conversation with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (video) - 2008-05-12 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

How to Rock SxSW Considerations for Scalable Web Ventures

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

How to Build a High Growth Startup Fast and Cheap

Customer Service is the New Marketing - 2008-02-04

Customer Service as Community - video

BlogWorld Expo - 2007-11-08

Keynote