WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Matt Mullenweg turned his early passion for blogging into a flourishing business and an unshakeable idea: that users should be able to share and tweak the code that powers their websites, and that most of those tools should be free to use. As far back as college, Matt was collaborating with far-flung fellow-coders to make blogging less clunky and more elegant and intuitive. Around 2005, he pitched the idea for WordPress.com to his bosses at CNET, but they turned him down, so he launched the idea on his own, eventually tucking the service into a nascent umbrella company called Automattic. Today—after many twists and turns—the company has nearly 2000 employees and a valuation of $7 billion; and WordPress powers more than 40% of the websites on the internet.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:07.0	Download the app today.
0:09.0	When you leave home, can you ever really go back?
0:12.0	Made a version!
0:13.0	Soccer legend Leo Messi and I both left Argentina as kids.
0:17.0	You know you're that piece of a puzzle that doesn't fit anywhere.
0:20.0	To so many immigrants, football is a way to reconnect.
0:23.0	Listen to the last cop in the embedded podcast feed
0:26.0	to hear the latest collaboration from MPR and Fududo Studios.
0:30.0	Hey, really quick before we start the show.
0:32.0	Did you know that how I built this is also a book?
0:36.0	Well, it's now out in paperback and available wherever books are sold.
0:40.0	So check it out.
0:41.0	How I built this?
0:42.0	The book!
0:43.0	Now to the show.
0:48.0	I actually remember this meeting once.
0:50.0	It was one of the awkwardest meeting I had ever been in.
0:52.0	It was the publishers I think of news.com.
0:54.0	The editor-in-chief, everyone was there.
0:56.0	And they said, okay, here is a fully written article ready to go.
0:59.0	Publish it.
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