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I'm impressed by Matt Mullenweg. I think the folks over at Posterous could learn a few things from him.

• nopal 16y ago
  A quick Google tells me that he's the founding developer of WordPress, but that's all I know of him. Could you elaborate on your statement?
  • pquerna 16y ago
    He built on an open source project and built a very successful community and SaaS consumer business around it, starting at a time when no one was using that kind of model.
  • zacharyz 16y ago
    He is the CEO of both wordpress.org (maintainers of the open source distribution of wordpress) and automattic (wordpress.com). He is the main visionary and final say on all features that are released. Back in 2003 he forked an old blog tool called b2, then grew it until it became one of the most versatile and healthy CMSs out there. One of the things that has impressed me most about how he has run things is that he is able to balance the creation of a hosted blogging platform (wordpress.com) while respecting the needs and desires of those who wish to own their own data and operate their own systems (think about facebook vs diaspora here). I recently had a chance to meet him at the portland wordcamp. He was able to answer both highly detailed questions (why is x implemented this way and how will it be improved?) to big picture questions like how wordpress will continue to develop to compete with the likes of tumblr as well as providing the functionality of wordpress.com to everybody. Overall he is one of those rare CEOs who is very much enlightened about all aspects of the organization.
    • bl4k 16y ago
      Sorry to bust-up the love-in but Matt isn't the CEO of Wordpress.com, but Toni Schneider is. Also the open source project doesn't have a CEO. Matt is lead-dev at both. Points still apply though, and Matt should get a ton of credit