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ver notice when going to post on this blog, “Millennial Entrepreneurs” for assignments, what you log in through. Well it is WordPress, founded by Matthew Mullenweg when he was in college in 2005. Today it is used as one of leading, and most successful websites to upload and create blogs worldwide. How ironic that the cite we use to talk about all the entrepreneur’s in the world, is one created by a millennial entrepreneur.
Like most college kids, Matt was struggling keeping up with his grades. He also didn’t feel he was in the right spot, and college wasn’t his thing. So he wanted to vent those feelings to kids in the similar situation, but noticed there was no way to connect and do that. He did however, realize the World Wide Web was on the rise and the new place to be, so why not there. He created WordPress to connect with kids who didn’t “fit in/like” college and started a blog. Little did he know it would take off and blow up how it did. Today, there are about 60 million blogs on WordPress alone, one of which is ours. He saw a way to take venting and expressing his feelings to the next level. He knew, the only way to do it before was write it down, and save it and share with friend if you were brave enough. He wondered about mak
ing it better and in real time by allowing blogging to happen at your finger tips, and be published when you want.
WordPress and millennial entrepreneur is one thing I never expected them to go together. I never saw us talking about entrepreneurs and writing about their success and what they did, on their platform. It is a small word to say the least, and very ironic that it comes together how it does.
What a cool story. I had no idea that the guy who started WordPress was in a similar situation as all of us as college students. I am sure that when he started WordPress he did not envision it growing into what it is today. He was just a college kid trying to solve a problem. Stories like this are a great reminder about the power of technology to help solve our problems. WordPress is just one of many examples.
That is so cool! I love how you thought to even explore a blog website. And what are the odds the entrepreneur, who helped bring this website to reality, was a college student. It’s funny to think about a time when this stuff was irregular, but with the assistance from Mullenweg, we do not even give these kinds of things a second thought. I also love the purpose behind this business/website. This blog website is the perfect solution to college students who don’t feel included, it allows them to feel “heard”. Mullenweg did a great job with this website and it is still being used today and will most likely still be used in the future. Well done!