Matt Mullenweg

“WP Engine has not done any podcasts and no press. They don't respond to journalists. They don't talk about this.”

“We ran a sentiment analysis recently. We were kind of like looking at different social networks, analyzing all the comments, and we found actually that the negative, you know, the sort of devil horn fraction on like what was it? Like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instag…”

“I actually mortgaged my condo and donated the last million, million and a half to finish out that project.”

“If or when I'm gone, I don't want to pass it to a committee. I want to pass it to someone else who can, you know, have a role similar to mine, and really sort of, ah, try to be a steward.”

“WordPress was actually a fork of abandoned open source project called B two.”

“However, there's a clause in it that says, if you're above a certain threshold of monthly active users, I forget what it is, like, it's big, it's like seven hundred fifty million, so it's pretty high. You need a license from them. And so that does not give you…”

“WordPress.org has always been me personally.”

“When you're in the wrong, you probably say, only have the lawyers talk. When you're in the right, like, you know, I think you should be out there and tell the story.”

“Open source was actually the most important idea of our generation. So if, like, if the founding fathers were around today, I think they would be open source advocates.”

“If you think about it, as more and more of our lives are influenced and actually controlled by the software we use if we don't have fundamental freedoms attached to that software, we're not truly free.”