Matthew Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress, a resource a lot of us use on a daily basis. Funnily enough his background is anything but technical, he went to a performing arts school, learned to play the Jazz Saxophone, and then he went on to created one of the best website and blog programs in the world. In 2005 he started the company Automatic, which became the backing force behind WordPress and Akismet

In January 2009, the San Francisco Business Times reported that traffic to WordPress sites were growing faster than for Google’s blogger service and significantly outstripped its nearest competitor, Six Apart. A reporter at eMarketer called Mullenweg “quite an entrepreneur and visionary” when comparing to WordPress’ building momentum over its competitors to Facebook’s growing popularity over MySpace.

Whats inspiring and quite funny to me is that as i sit here and use WordPress to write this blog post, I actually see that the venture that Matt got into is quite beneficial to many. He found something that the people wanted and gave it to them. He beat out competitors like google to be the leading company in the blog world. He actually was a college dropout like many of the worlds richest young entrepreneurs so it just goes to show you that sometimes one does not need a college education to be successful. Find what you want to do that benefits all, and go for it!