There are many millennials who have changed the world with their innovative thinking. One prime example of the millennial entrepreneur is Matt Mullenweg, the creator of Word Press. At age 21, Matt launched a website called Automatic, which became the secret force behind WordPress. Automatic reached over a billion people every month, and became the basic skeleton for many other websites, like Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Polldaddy, and eventually, WordPress.
WordPress was created from the multiple passions that captured Mullenweg’s heart. Matt has written code, prose, and music for many years. He took these passions and combined them in one of the most successful blogging posts of today.
“I am a founding developer of WordPress, the Open Source software used by over 26% of the web, including this site. The website says WordPress is ‘a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform’ but more importantly WordPress is a part of who I am. Like eating, breathing, music, I can’t not work on WordPress. The project touches a lot of people, something I’ve recently begun to appreciate. I consider myself very lucky to be able to work on something I love so much.”
-Mark Mullenwag.
Many of us think we need to separate our work and our personal lives. Mullenwag shows us that it’s possible to combine work and play, and to be extremely successful at it as well.
Thanks for the information! I had no idea the site that we have become so acquainted with over the semester was the result of a passionate millennial. I especially find it inspiring how you noted that it is possible to combine all of one’s passions into a business idea