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WHOOP Podcast

Growth Mindset: Navigating the Path to Entrepreneurial Success with Matt Mullenweg

WHOOP Podcast

WHOOP

Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6690 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, WHOOP Founder and CEO Will Ahmed is joined by Matt Mullenweg the founder and developer of WordPress, the web platform powering over 40% of the sites on the internet. As the founder and CEO of Automattic, Matt is working to democratize publishing and commerce. Automattic is structured like a holding company, currently valued at over $7.5 billion, and is behind brands like WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads and more. Will and Matt discuss how Matt sta...

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0:00.0

Hello, folks. Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down with top athletes,

0:08.4

researchers, scientists, CEOs, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform

0:14.3

at their peak. And what you can do, too, to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host,

0:20.1

Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, and we are on a mission to unlock your own best performance. I'm your host Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop,

0:22.6

and we are on a mission to unlock human performance.

0:27.1

On this week's episode, I am joined by the talented and the humble Matt Mullenweg,

0:33.2

the founder and developer of WordPress and the CEO of Automatic.

0:39.1

Automatic was last valued at over $7 billion.

0:43.6

And WordPress, one of the companies underneath Automatic, powers over 40% of the internet.

0:51.3

Yeah, that's pretty incredible.

0:52.7

Powers over 40% of the internet. Automatic also is

0:57.6

behind brands like Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, and more. Matt and I discuss

1:04.1

how he founded WordPress. One man commented on a blog he wrote, and they started this company

1:10.6

without ever having met.

1:12.5

Believe that or not, that was 20 years ago, 2003.

1:16.3

The power of open source software, Matt's working to democratize the Internet.

1:22.4

Again, WordPress powers 40% of sites on the Internet, so we get into that.

1:27.4

Matt's strategy as an entrepreneur,

1:29.6

we get into his interview processes, some of his favorite questions, how Matt deals with health

1:35.0

and wellness, his approach to biohacking and meditation, and how Matt uses Whoop to improve his

1:42.3

performance. We talked about sleep, HRV, resting heart rate,

1:47.3

and many other metrics that Whoop captures. For those of you on Whoop, you can now skip the

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