Matthew Mullenweg grew up with hobbies like coding, art and economics. A fun mix. One of the main founders of WordPress, his hobbies and skills throughout his life led to many amazing web related ideas. In 2005 Matt left school at Houston and a consulting job to start his overhead business, Automattic. This later led to a slew of other companies that used Automattic as a launch pad, including WordPress. He was just nineteen when he decided to change the way people use the internet to publish.
Automattic and all of its resulting companies has turned into a completely virtual company of over 1,100 employees in more than 62 countries.
WordPress, which is used by many authors and writers to publish blogs, was started because of the closure of b2, the only other open source platform option at the time. Having used b2 throughout his life, its end was a pain for Matt. The idea and plan for WordPress started when Matt was approached online by a fellow coder after he had talked about the lack of a publishing space.
Using b2 as a starting base and template, the two entrepreneurs proceeded to build upon the main idea while improving any faults. A classic mash up of ideas and innovation, WordPress is now used by over 31 percent of the web. It is only one of many successes Matt made for himself, but it very much added to the open source world of the web.
He works on it constantly and takes joy from the benefit people receive.
From educational to professional, WordPress has added levels of simplicity, convenience, and efficiency to the way people work. Matt has an entrepreneur’s spirit, and from his career history so far, it is easy to see he looks for problems to solve and thrives in finding solutions.
This is a really interesting story and it is very cool to see how WordPress came to be! I really like that Matt mashed up different ideas to innovate and create a web tool that is used by so many people today. It is also really neat to see a 19-year-old leave school in order to work on his passion and accomplish goals that he has set for himself.
The process Matt went through is really cool, you did a great job of explaining that! The way he saw that pain, and even experienced it himself, shows that he knows where he’s coming from. Matt knows what doesn’t work, and wants to change that, which is a great mindset for the entrepreneur.
I did not know that WordPress is so widely used. It is interesting to see how a young entrepreneur has had such a big influence on the world including this website that we are using.
It is crazy that a man at the age of 19 years old can leave school and do this. To adjust from one trajectory to another and move forward to build something this big is awesome.