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  • The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.

  • A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

  • Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

  • I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

    "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview With Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
  • Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

  • I drive a Prius and drink $10k bottles of wine. The wine isnt on Instagram. The Prius is.

  • I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands everyday is super revolutionary.

    "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.
  • One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

  • Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.

    "The first 100k users are always the hardest". BayCHI Podcast, August 8, 2006.
  • The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

    "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
  • I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

    "Now On Wikiquotes". Personal Blog, ma.tt. January 13, 2011.
  • I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

  • One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

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    "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.
  • Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.

    "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.
  • 130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

  • In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.

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  • If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

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  • If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.

  • It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

  • For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.

    "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.
  • Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.

    "Automattic Buys Simperium, Maker of Simplenote" by Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com. January 24, 2013.
  • Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making.

  • As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

    "Matt Mullenweg on how open source is democratising the web". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. May 24, 2013.
  • There's no financial aspect to stats.

    "[Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] Quantserve Code in Stats Javascript". WordPress forum discussion, wordpress.org. December 2010.
  • I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.

  • I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

  • The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways.

  • You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.

  • As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

  • You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

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Matt Mullenweg

  • Born: January 11, 1984
  • Occupation: Entrepreneur