Matthew Mullenweg is a beast. He is co-creator of many open course organizations, including WordPress, a program that powers over 31% of the entire internet. However, this idea didn’t come out fully baked. Back in high school, Matt noticed that there were few news websites on the web. Matt would instead read blogs written by various professors and write some blogs of his on using Movable Type. This program became costly, so he ended up switching to b2/cafelog. b2, an open-source blogging tool. Matt enjoyed coding, so he decided to build something that would combine the utility of Movable Type and cafelog, so him and a friend both put together the first iteration of WordPress in January of 2003. In May of 2004, WordPress was fighting to get a bigger audience, and they received much attention after a competitor changed pricings for their service. This drove many people away to look for other options for internet platform providers. WordPress was there, ready to help the thousands of people that were searching for a more affordable service. After CNET saw the great success Matthew was having, they invited him to come work on their site that was using WordPress. Matt, obliged, but eventually left to focus his attention on the program itself. The years go by, and Matt was doing great. He added many new features onto WordPress, and it catapulted in popularity over the next few years, and powers over a quarter of the internet today.