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The man who gave the world WordPress. Matt Mullenweg was 19 when he helped fork a struggling blogging tool called b2 — the project that became WordPress, now powering more than 40% of the web. David Schardt’s biography traces the unlikely rise of open source’s most successful entrepreneur, from Houston teenager to Automattic founder.
Mullenweg’s story runs through the early blogosphere wars, the principled battles over open-source licensing, the radical bet on distributed work — Automattic has no offices, with hundreds of employees across dozens of countries — and the unwavering conviction that publishing should belong to everyone, not to platforms. It is a business story built on ideals most founders abandon at the first funding round.
Timely and inspiring, this is essential for founders, developers, and anyone who believes the web should stay open — the biography of the quiet revolutionary behind a huge share of the sites you visit every single day.
Matt Mullenweg: The Young Man Who Made It Easy to Publish on the Web
Born in Houston, Texas in 1984, Matt Mullenweg was still a teenager when he began tinkering with blogging software — and barely twenty when he co-founded WordPress, the free, open-source platform that would go on to power more than a third of the entire web. David Schardt’s biography traces the journey of a young developer whose passion for the open web reshaped how the world publishes.
From his early days building on the abandoned b2 codebase with Mike Little, to dropping out of the University of Houston, to founding Automattic — the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr — Mullenweg’s story is one of bold bets on openness, community, and the belief that anyone should be able to share their voice online.
An Inspiring Story for the Open Web Generation
Whether you are a blogger, a developer, or an aspiring entrepreneur, this is an engaging portrait of a tech leader who chose collaboration over control. Discover how one young man’s commitment to open-source software helped democratize online publishing — and what his journey can teach anyone dreaming of building something that matters.
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