Matt Mullenweg is a web developer and online social media entrepreneur. At 25, he created WordPress, an opensource content management software, the very software this website is using right now. WordPress has given millions of creators the ability to create their own unique website and blogs.
Matt Mullenweg actually dropped out of college in October of 2004, and worked for CNET, making their blogs and website media better with his WordPress Software. Matt Mullenweg left CNET that next year to continue to work of WordPress, as it was becoming a major hit.
Matt brought on significant investors he knew would be able to help him with his company, one of those investors even being CNET. By January 2009, WordPress had become the fastest growing blogging service sites. WordPress’s success to its competitors have been compared to Facebook’s success over Myspace. Facebook revolutionized social media and WordPress revolutionized website design and blogging.
By 2011, WordPress was powering over 50 million blogs globally. The popularity of the software had grown incredibly fast. By 2014 WordPress was cited at powering over 22% of the world’s most popular websites. Matt Mullenweg is viewed as an inspiring innovator and is a respected entrepeneur. Since 2005 he has been a frequent speaker at different conferences and events all over the world. Matt Mullenweg is an example of someone who pursues their aspirations and ideas. If it weren’t for him you wouldn’t be reading this blog after all.
Its cool how he dropped out of college, but was still able to have massive success. That’s and interesting story!
Lol! I see what you did there! I didn’t know much background about WordPress until I read this blog post to be honest! It’s cool to see how even the site dedicated to millennial entrepreneurs was formed by a millennial entrepreneur himself! I agree. Matt is successful because he followed his aspirations, even if that meant dropping college to go against the status quo and start working on his ideas.
This is a great story. It’s interesting how he differentiated his product from other web development services such as Wix by focusing primarily on blogging. Had he not made blogging the differentiating factor of his product, I wonder where WordPress would be today.
Great idea as it has become so widely popular. This really started a phenomenon with blogging by making it so much easier for small businesses and people to blog. Interesting how he got his start and how there is such a similarity between Facebook and WordPress with revolutionizing their own industries.