#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, the open platform that runs most of the sites you visit and the CEO of Automattic. In this episode Matt and Shane discuss distributed work, the 5 levels of autonomous organizations, decision making, running an organization with more than 1300 people, integrating acquisitions and so much more.

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0:00.0	I believe all proprietary software to be an evolutionary dead end.
0:04.6	Maybe it'll take 50 or 100 years.
0:07.2	But what happens, just like what happened fairly quickly,
0:10.0	with like encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedias and Wikipedia,
0:13.4	is that the thing which is open to all and gets everyone working together,
0:17.8	if it truly gets that sort of like humanity working together on the same shared resource,
0:23.2	you get the opposite of the tragedy of the comments versus like the field being overrun,
0:27.6	each person operating in their own self-interest sort of kills the environment
0:31.5	or kills the shared thing.
0:32.9	You get each person operating in their own self-interest,
0:35.1	makes to share a thing better and better.
0:37.0	And in digital world, we can do that because we have economics,
0:39.5	economics, of abundance, versus economics, of scarcity.
0:42.4	That's why open source will eventually win every mark of its end.
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1:01.9	I'm your host, Shane Parrish.
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