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Matt Mullenweg

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Matt is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California. He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress. After leaving CNET, he has devoted the majority of his time to developing a number of open source projects and is a frequent speaker at conferences, such as Canada’s Northern Voice and the WordCamp events organized around WordPress software. In late 2005, he founded Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com and Akismet. Mullenweg attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studied jazz saxophone.

A Houston native, Matt also serves as an adviser to Sphere and WeGame.

Milestones

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  Matt Mullenweg added a position as Founder and Principal at Audrey Capital.
  Posted 3/13/11 at 1:10pm
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  Matt Mullenweg added a position as Advisor at DailyBurn.
  Posted 5/20/10 at 11:39pm
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  Matt Mullenweg added a position as Advisor at Surphace.
  Posted 3/2/08 at 6:30pm
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  Matt Mullenweg added a position as Advisor at WeGame.
  Posted 2/9/08 at 12:32pm
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  Matt Mullenweg added a position as Founder/Primary Developer at Automattic.
  Posted 10/17/07 at 7:59am
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Tracks.by. (12/1/11)
  Posted 3/23/12 at 11:24am
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Munchery. (1/31/12)
  Posted 2/8/12 at 12:09am
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Getaround. (9/9/11)
  Posted 9/9/11 at 6:10pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Typekit. (6/24/09)
  Posted 6/13/11 at 10:44am via typekit.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Milk. (4/1/11)
  Posted 4/26/11 at 4:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Hipmunk. (10/5/10)
  Posted 8/17/10 at 10:55am via thealarmclock.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in BranchOut. (9/17/10)
  Posted 9/17/10 at 2:24pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in Foodzie. (12/16/08)
  Posted 12/16/08 at 2:23pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in SendGrid. (4/20/10)
  Posted 4/20/10 at 6:01pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in GroupCard. (6/1/09)
  Posted 12/5/09 at 11:30pm via techcrunch.com
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  Matt Mullenweg invested in DailyBurn. (5/26/09)
  Posted 5/26/09 at 2:04pm via techcrunch.com

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The 25 Most Influential People on the Web (images.businessweek.com) [edit]
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3. Car Rental Marketplace Getaround Gets Around $3.4 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed with Valley Names (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Travel Site Hipmunk Raises $1M Seed Funding (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mails (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
9. techcrunch.com [edit]
10. Feel The DailyBurn: Gyminee Gets A New Name, Raises $525K (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. techcrunch.com [edit]