Matthew Mullenweg was born in Houston Texas in 1984. He began studies in the University of Houston, but dropped out to work at CNet, where he started his most influential company. Mullenweg was the co-founder of WordPress, one of the biggest blogging sites ever made and the site used to write this blog.
Matt started WordPress while at CNet but quickly left CNet to specifically pursue WordPress. His blogging site grew very quickly and is now one of the most popular blogging platforms you can find. After starting WordPress and building it to where is is now, Mullenweg began to start more businesses, the most important to him is his company Automattic, which is the system that WordPress was built on and is now the base of many other companies, some of which he started. Mullenweg started Automattic in order to do something important to him, which is to improve the web.
Matthew Mullenweg is also a big philanthropist. He donates to multiple charities around the world. He even visited Ethiopia with the charity called, Charity: water, which helps to get clean water to every place in the world.
Matthew Mullenweg is an entrepreneur who constantly wants to make the world a better place.
It is super cool to see that Mullenweg not only created a very popular blog site, but also used the program it was made on to start another company. He saw that what he had done worked and decided to take the opportunity and grow it. Extremely smart of him to realize that what he made would work for others as well.