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Matt Mullenweg

Founder & CEO, Automattic · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, the open-source content management system. He is also the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Mullenweg: WordPress powers around 42% of websites
“I think we're right now around like 42% of websites.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 2:43 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress

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Everything Matt Mullenweg said on the Official SaaStr Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mullenweg: Web will fill with AI spam, but high-quality content survives
“There is a version of AI that the web gets filled with spam and, you know, everything. I think that will happen and it doesn't matter because ultimately what we're looking for is that discernment, that quality.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 6:32 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Disclosure
Mullenweg: Automattic enforces strict neutrality between WordPress.com and third-party hosts
“The rest is that help the host. So they cannot preference part of the rules. They can't reference WordPress.com over any other host in the world. WordPress.com gets access to all the same code APIs, everything that everyone else does.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 16:05 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mullenweg: Automattic Hired 1,200 Remote Workers During COVID and Productivity Suffered
“Our culture suffered. Like we were not as productive during COVID. People thought, oh, this must be, I had other CEOs. This must be great. You just, you're, you must be running at full speed. I'm like, no, I hired 1200 people the past year that have, the past …”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 26:37 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mullenweg: The WordPress ecosystem generates about $10 billion annually
“The WordPress ecosystem, I would estimate to be about ten billion dollars per year.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 11:48 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Disclosure
Mullenweg: Commits to Finding Liquidity for Any Shareholder Wanting Out
“I tell all my shareholders, like, if you ever want to sell a share, I'm your man. I don't know what the price is, but I don't want to lock them up.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 22:52 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Insight
Mullenweg: Monthly or Quarterly In-Person Meetups Are Ideal for Remote Teams
“It's not daily. It's not weekly. Those are not the right answers. And so it's probably closer to a monthly, quarterly is a real sweet spot for this.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 28:49 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Insight
Mullenweg: Tech Markets Are Mostly Driven by Compounding, Not Fads
“They can sometimes still technology is the funnest marketplace to work in the world. Like people can switch very quickly, but mostly there's compounding.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 2:23 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
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Mullenweg: WooCommerce is Automattic's largest business
“We went into commerce with WooCommerce. Let's democratize commerce. And we have now an open source Shopify, which is our, now our largest business. It's a growing like a weed.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 9:55 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Disclosure
Mullenweg: Automattic initially passed on buying WooCommerce over bad code
“And so to be honest, the code was not good. And so like the first couple of times we looked at it, we decided not to buy it because the code was so bad. But at some point, like we're like, they've really figured out something with the users. That's resonating.…”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 21:09 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Insight
Mullenweg: Broad Missions Enable Decades-Long Founder Motivation
“I think you just gotta pick a big mission. We started in In 2003 to democratize publishing. And so that was broad enough that we've been able to stay at that and it's banded and it's evolved over time, of course, like what it means to publish has evolved over …”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 1:18 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Assertion Supported
Mullenweg: WordPress powers around 42% of websites
“I think we're right now around like 42% of websites.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 2:43 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Disclosure
Mullenweg: WordPress launched a 100-year hosting subscription plan
“One thing that we launched last year was a 100 year plan. Yeah. So you could subscribe to a hundred year hosting plan.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 4:51 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Disclosure
Mullenweg: Automattic will migrate Tumblr to run on WordPress
“Tumblr is not running on WordPress yet, but it will. So we're going to switch Tumblr to be powered by WordPress.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 9:00 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Disclosure
Mullenweg: Automattic's stock is held only by employees and a few dozen investors
“Automatic is a very closely held stock. It's basically our employees and a few dozen of the most sophisticated investors in the world.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 23:07 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Assertion Supported
Mullenweg: WordPress had 0.8% market share when tracking began
“When we started tracking it, we were at .8.”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 2:53 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress Jan 26, 2024 17m
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