Matt Mullenweg
10 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 16, 2020 by Tony Schneider · said 32 times in 9 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (16), Tony Schneider (5), Ed Cooke (4), Guillermo Rauch (3), Joost de Valk (2), Tony Conrad (1), Hiten Shah (1)
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2023 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- 20VC: Gusto Co-Founder, Tomer London on Why Most Founders Approach Fundraising With The Wrong Mindset Today, How To Construct A Values/Motivation Alignment Test To Determine The Right Investors For You & Why Delight Is So Crucial To The Success of Any Con
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
2016 5 mentions in 1 episode
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Mar 16, 2020
Schneider: Automattic selected only 3-4 monthly priorities from 30+ potential tasks
“Matt and I always kept a running list of all the things we wanted to work on, or maybe should be working on at some point, and Usually had like dirty or 40 things on it, probably even more because there's a lot of growth and a lot of ideas everywhere. And then…”
Jul 11, 2022 positive
Jul 11, 2022 bullish
Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022
Mullenweg: WordPress originated from forking the abandoned b2/cafelog software
“I started using some software called B-II Cafe Log, actually from a developer out of Corsica, France, and you know, started volunteering on the farms, forums, helping other people out, contributing code, and then what happened was that software actually was ab…”
Jul 11, 2022
Mullenweg: Automattic investors provided $10M primary and secondary liquidity in 2008
“What the investors did is they said, okay, let's take that two hundred million, make it a new valuation. We'll invest money in that and we'll put, you know, ten million to the company and then we'll allow you and Tony and other employees to like take a little …”
Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022 bullish
Jul 11, 2022 positive
Mullenweg: Defaulting to trust is worth the occasional 'optimism tax'
“I personally am very default trusting. And that also means that sometimes you pay what I call an optimism tax. My friend John Sten came up with that, and basically saying that, you know, if you default to being optimistic and trusting, sometimes people will ta…”