Matt Mullenweg
CEO of Automattic; Co-founder, WordPress
Houston, Texas
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Investments
AppFlowy
Total Funding: $6M
Liquid AI
Total Funding: $44M
Mindset Health
Total Funding: $20M
NocoDB
Total Funding: $11M
Positive Food Co.
Total Funding: $7M
Holey Grail Donuts
Total Funding: $9M
Entrepreneur First
Total Funding: $180M
Nord Security
Total Funding: $110M
HomeCourt
Total Funding: $29M
MobileCoin
Total Funding: $110M
Work Experience
2005
CEO
2014
Automattic was created to democratize publishing and commerce. It's structured as a holding company, like Berkshire Hathaway, with sub-CEOs and four main revenue lines: consumer subscriptions, enterprise, ecommerce services, and advertising. We're behind brands you know like WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, Simplenote, Pocket Casts, Day One...
Founder / President
2005 - 2014
Shortly after Automattic was founded Toni Schneider joined as CEO, and over the next eight years I learned a tremendous amount from his leadership. He passed torch of the CEO role to me a few days after my thirtieth birthday.
2003
Co-founder, Lead Developer
2003
Started as a simple open source blogging platform, at the beginning of 2022 WordPress powers over 43% of the top websites in the world. My roles with WordPress have spanned development, support, design, systems, event planning, janitorial, and public advocacy — thankfully, the community now includes people far better than me at all those tasks.
2008
Principal
2008
Angel investment and research company, a way for me to pay it forward the warm entrepreneurial help and guidance I received when I moved to San Francisco. 100+ investments, including successful exits in SendGrid, Ring, Blue Bottle Coffee, SmartThings, Typekit, August, Hipmunk, Divide, Makerbot, Gitlab; some fun ongoing companies with Calm, Elysium, Stellar, AngelList, Gusto, Over, Hint Water, Memrise, Getaround, Zero, Brilliant, StyleSeat, Stripe, SpaceX, Syng, and Wealthfront.
2022
Independent Director
2022
2017
Board Member
2017
ecoAmerica is a non-profit building climate leadership, public support, and political will for climate solutions in the United States.
2019 - 2024
Board Member
2019 - 2024
2010 - 2021
Board Member
2010 - 2021
Non-profit dedicated to environmental journalism, published using WordPress at Grist.org.
2017 - 2021
Board Observer
2019 - 2021
Was very exciting to join the board of this fully distributed and remote-first company, and see them through their IPO NASDAQ:GTLB. I learned a ton from Sid Sijbrandij and Gitlab, and the company continues to inspire me. They epitomize transparency, directness, distributed, and remote culture.
Board Member
2017 - 2019
2004 - 2005
Senior Product Manager
2004 - 2005
Open Source and new product development.