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Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg
Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a...
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When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a teenager, David seemed like a legit journalist who usually writes for better publications...
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Falling Snow The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his...
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The talented Felix Arntz has given an incredible Christmas gift to the WordPress community with his fast, light, and accessible Snow Fall plugin, which is live on this site and you can install on yours. I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! Search for “snow fall” in your...
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Studio Sync WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
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WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
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What’s in My Bag, 2025 It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit...
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It’s another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there’s a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here’s what made the cut, now I’m going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at my sister...
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Matt 4.1 Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big...
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Forty-one is a nice birthday because it doesn’t feel like too much pressure. For forty I did a big eclipse thing that ended up amazing, this year I’m replicating what I did a few years ago and celebrating in New York, Houston, and San Francisco. My birthday today has already been...
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State of the Word Tokyo It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an...
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It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve...
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UH Magazine, Revisiting My Alma Mater My father attended University of Houston, and it’s where I went to college to study political...
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My father attended University of Houston, and it’s where I went to college to study political science, I started WordPress when there, and then dropped out after two years to move to San Franisco. It was fun seeing UH Magazine feature an article about my journey from a University...
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Status Quo I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
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I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
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Welcoming Harper As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah...
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As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah Potter and Harper to join Automattic. Harper is a super-fast (way faster than LanguageTool and Grammarly), local English grammar checker. The technology is nascent, but I’m very...
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Carmack & Rogan I guess something has changed with the Joe Rogan / Spotify deal and now all the old episodes are on...
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I guess something has changed with the Joe Rogan / Spotify deal and now all the old episodes are on YouTube again, which means the gems from the archives can now pop up. I was alerted to this conversation between Joe Rogan and John Carmack, and it’s pure gold. I know I’m five...
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DrupalCon Singapore This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform...
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This week, DrupalCon Singapore is bringing together an incredible community of Drupal platform creators, developers, and supporters.  Last year, I had the chance to share the stage with Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, and the conversation stuck with me. It highlighted the...
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Observer Article Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More...
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Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly writes for the Observer, WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More Energized’ Than Ever Amid WP Engine Battle.
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Age-gating I’m not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it’s appropriate in many situations and useful, and...
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I’m not opposed to age-gating at all, I think it’s appropriate in many situations and useful, and democratic societies can decide their own rules there. But it should be handled and authenticated as low-level as possible, at the operating system layer. See also: Australia’s...
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Bezos at Dealbook It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew...
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It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew Ross Sorkin, but this one with Jeff Bezos was particularly good.
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Disrupt Interview On Wednesday I had a great chat with Connie Loizos, the editor in chief of TechCrunch, you can view...
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On Wednesday I had a great chat with Connie Loizos, the editor in chief of TechCrunch, you can view the video here: Then yesterday Automattic filed its legal responses to the spurious lawfare from WP Engine, Silver Lake, and Quinn Emanuel. It’s a bit long, but if you have time...
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Everyone’s An Owner Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day,...
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Last Friday we said goodbye to 159 colleagues as part of our alignment offer. It was a tough day, there are a lot of close relationships within Automattic, and goodbyes are always hard. On Monday, I got to be Oprah for a few minutes. We had scheduled a town hall for leaders...
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Boom & Deepseek What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after...
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What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after Christmas, it was clear then that something big had happened and that it was truly open source and open weights (not this fake Llama stuff). It’s been fun to see the rest of the...
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Where is Lee Wittlinger? Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for...
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Lee controls the board of WP Engine. The board is why WP Engine hasn’t done a trademark deal for their use of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. You hide behind lawyers and corporate PR when you’re wrong, not when you’re right. I’m replying on Twitter, I’m commenting on...
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Kindness and Techcrunch Disrupt Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their...
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Back in June I recorded an episode with Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast, for their awesome non-profit kindness.org. You can listen to it through Pocket Casts here: This is kind of funny because I’m obviously in the midst of the big battle with Silver Lake and WP...
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My Freedom of Speech WP Engine has filed hundreds pages of legal documents seeking an injunction against me and...
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WP Engine has filed hundreds pages of legal documents seeking an injunction against me and Automattic. They say this is about community or some nonsense, but if you look at the core, what they’re trying to do is ask a judge to curtail my First Amendment rights. The First...
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RIP Quincy Jones Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is...
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Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were...
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GPL Clarification A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a...
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A quick followup on my prior conversation with Theo. During that chat, I talked briefly about a trademark infringer that was also distributing nulled plugins. I said “Not illegal. Legal under the GPL. But they weren’t changing the names. They were selling their customers Pro...
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Michael Palmisano on Collier I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on...
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I’ve been obsessed with Jacob Collier since I first saw his Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing cover on YouTube, and one of my favorite genres of videos is genius musicians breaking down the incredible musical stuff Jacob is doing. (He even has his own instrument now.) This reaction...
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I Voted! It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn’t register properly, but I found a...
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It was a huge pain in the butt, because my mail-in ballot didn’t register properly, but I found a last-minute flight to Houston and this morning walked over to Congregation Emanu El and voted. It is our most sacred duty as a citizen. I encourage every American to vote.
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Rhino Dehorning Yesterday in the African bush was great, I saw giraffes, zebras, warthogs, leopard turtles,...
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Yesterday in the African bush was great, I saw giraffes, zebras, warthogs, leopard turtles, elephants. Today wasn’t great: I witnessed a rhino shot with a tranquilizer from a helicopter, then it was held down, had its horns cut off, and then shaved down. I have some photos and...
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Automattic Alignment Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
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Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
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My First Million I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
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WPAI Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some...
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Very excited to share that we’ve acquired WPAI and the team is joining Automattic. They have some very cool products including CodeWP, AgentWP, and WP.chat.
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Response to DHH I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal,...
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I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH,...
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Those Other Lawsuits It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited...
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It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit....
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Cloudflare Stories There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s...
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There are two great Cloudflare-related stories published this weekend. The first is Steven Levy’s incredible story about Tim Jenkin, who created a secure communication protocol for the African National Congress to overthrow the apartheid regime in South Africa. Cloudflare’s CTO,...
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CNBC on WP Engine Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP...
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Ari Levy at CNBC has a great article covering the battle between WordPress and Silver Lake / WP Engine: Why WordPress [co-]founder Matt Mullenweg has gone ‘nuclear’ against tech investing giant Silver Lake.
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On with Theo / T3.gg On Thursday, a prominent developer, YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist posted a video titled...
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On Thursday, a prominent developer, YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and journalist posted a video titled This might be the end of WordPress. It was very harsh. In that video you’ll hear him say about me, “he’s a chronic hater” (7:55), “seems like he’s been a pretty petty bastard for a...
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Ed Catmull on Change I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me...
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I’ve been really enjoying the book Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull of Pixar, it was recommended to me by my colleague Dave Martin a while back and I finally got around to it. There’s an interesting story in it where George Lucas has asked him to develop a film editing system that...
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On Logan Bartlett Show You may not have heard of Logan Bartlett, but he’s one of the most hilarious people on Twitter and...
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You may not have heard of Logan Bartlett, but he’s one of the most hilarious people on Twitter and does a really interesting podcast. (He had a cool episode with Marc Benioff recently.) We sat down for a discussion on managing through crisis, open source and AI, employee...
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Hash tables “You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually...
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“You didn’t just come up with a cool hash table,” he remembers telling Krapivin. “You’ve actually completely wiped out a 40-year-old conjecture!” There’s a delightful article on an undergraduate discovering an optimization in a very basic computer science principle.
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Scale In high school when 5% of your class doesn’t like you it’s like 3-5 people. Running a company of...
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In high school when 5% of your class doesn’t like you it’s like 3-5 people. Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn’t like you, that’s 85 people! That fills a room. 150k followers and 5% don’t like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people. It’s still 5%.
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Sun and shadows
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