https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg
"In the early days of the pandemic, Matt Mullenweg didn't move to a
compound in Hawaii, bug out to a bunker in New Zealand or head to Miami
and start shilling for crypto. No, in the early days of the pandemic,
Mullenweg bought an RV. He drove it all over the country, bouncing
between Houston and San Francisco and Jackson Hole with plenty of stops
in national parks. In between, he started doing some tinkering.
The tinkering is a part-time gig: Most of Mullenweg’s time is spent as
CEO of Automattic, one of the web’s largest platforms. It’s best known
as the company that runs WordPress.com, the hosted version of the
blogging platform that powers about 43% of the websites on the internet.
Since WordPress is open-source software, no company technically owns it,
but Automattic provides tools and services and oversees most of the
WordPress-powered internet. It’s also the owner of the booming ecommerce
platform WooCommerce, Day One, the analytics tool Parse.ly and the
podcast app Pocket Casts. Oh, and Tumblr. And Simplenote. And many
others. That makes Mullenweg one of the most powerful CEOs in tech, and
one of the most important voices in the debate over the future of the
internet."
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "great, in-depth profile of a key person in
the #opensource world"
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