Ma.tt Mullenweg

Beeper and Automattic 20 To announce and celebrate the incredible engineering achievement of the Beeper team launching local bridges and their premium model we hosted a fun event in Automattic's space in NYC. The app side of Automattic does some amazing work, and the applications themselves are pretty well known and reviewed, but many don't know they're part of Automattic, so it was a good opportunity to tell that side of our story a bit.

Beeper and Automattic 20

To announce and celebrate the incredible engineering achievement of the Beeper team launching local bridges and their premium model we hosted a fun event in Automattic's space in NYC. The app side of Automattic does some amazing work, and the applications themselves are…

Back on The Verge In honor of Automattic's 20th anniversary, and also since it's been a few years, I joined Nilay Patel the editor-in-chief of The Verge on their Decoder Podcast. We talked about Tumblr and the Fediverse, how Automattic thinks about Ecosystem and Cosmos sides of the business, Automattic's re-organization into cross-business functional teams and leadership, the vision of Clay as a personal CRM…

Back on The Verge

In honor of Automattic's 20th anniversary, and also since it's been a few years, I joined Nilay Patel the editor-in-chief of The Verge on their Decoder Podcast. We talked about Tumblr and the Fediverse, how Automattic thinks about Ecosystem and Cosmos sides of the business,…

Highlighted text from article: "Adapting to users: Although it did not take advantage of many lucrative opportunities (see below), Claudius did make several pivots in its business that were responsive to customers. An employee light-heartedly requested a tungsten cube, kicking off a trend of orders for “specialty metal items” (as Claudius later described them). Another employee suggested Claudius start relying on pre-orders of specialized items instead of simply responding to requests for what to stock, leading Claudius to send a message to Anthropic employees in its Slack channel announcing the “Custom Concierge” service doing just that;"

Kudos to the Anthropic team for the honesty, this made me laugh
www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

Alpha School Insider Scott Alexander, of Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten fame, ran an Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025 in February. The prompt: "Submit an ACX-length post reviewing something, anything, except a book." The submissions were collected anonymously in a giant 450-page Google Doc. I don't think the winners have been chosen yet, but there is one essay that has been making the rounds and getting shared more, and that's…

Alpha School Insider

Scott Alexander, of Slate Star Codex / Astral Codex Ten fame, ran an Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025 in February. The prompt: "Submit an ACX-length post reviewing something, anything, except a book." The submissions were collected anonymously in a giant 450-page…

Automattic Twenty We're celebrating a fun anniversary at Automattic today, our 20th, with a fun look-back. Gosh, it's been quite a journey, and it still feels like we're just getting started in so many areas. In 2005, being a remote-first company was anathema to investors and business leaders* at the time; it was a scarlet letter that combined with our embrace of Open Source and the relative inexperience got us some funny looks and a lot of skepticism.

Automattic Twenty

We're celebrating a fun anniversary at Automattic today, our 20th, with a fun look-back. Gosh, it's been quite a journey, and it still feels like we're just getting started in so many areas. In 2005, being a remote-first company was anathema to investors and business leaders* at…

Alfred-like Shortcuts in Spotlight I've been testing the developer previews of all the new Apple 26 operating systems, which I don't recommend this early in the cycle, but I like to live dangerously. I've quickly become accustomed to Liquid Glass. The iPad windowing enhancements do make it feel more like a real computer, but I usually run things in full-screen mode. My favorite thing to play with so far has been the new Spotlight (what pops up when you press Command + Space) and related shortcuts.

Alfred-like Shortcuts in Spotlight

I've been testing the developer previews of all the new Apple 26 operating systems, which I don't recommend this early in the cycle, but I like to live dangerously. I've quickly become accustomed to Liquid Glass. The iPad windowing enhancements do make it feel…

Huge congrats to a well-deserved and amazing person!

Play With Clay Happy to announce that the amazing Clay.earth product and team is joining Automattic. If you haven't tried the app out yet, here's a quick video to give you a taste. TechCrunch has covered the broader strategy pretty well: One of the top requests we've heard from Beeper beta testers is they want to tie in more context, like a personal CRM, and some even requested Clay by name.

Play With Clay

Happy to announce that the amazing Clay.earth product and team is joining Automattic. If you haven't tried the app out yet, here's a quick video to give you a taste. TechCrunch has covered the broader strategy pretty well: One of the top requests we've heard from Beeper beta testers…

Howdy, Matt Mullenweg and Mary Hubbard! Did you catch their Fireside chat at #WCEU2025? Here are some of our favorite snaps. 📸🎙️

This is why I fight for open source even when it's unpopular. @simonwillison.net

How I Used AI to Build a Content Calendar (Without Writing Code) How a routine meeting led to developing an internal tool with AI, transforming GitHub Issues into a user-friendly calendar for content planning.

Read the full story here → wordpress.com/blog/2025/03...

Wow!

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YouTube video by WordPress Exclusive Q&A with Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp Asia 2025 – Insights & Future of WordPress!

Our CEO, @ma.tt, joined over 1,400 attendees from 71 countries (and nearly 15,000 more online) for a Q&A at WordCamp Asia.

Matt shared his insights on the future of open-source, the role of AI in WordPress, & how contributors can shape the platform’s next evolution.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEm2...

On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered eve…

I had the good honor of being on @lennysan.bsky.social's excellent podcast, which I wrote about here: ma.tt/2025/03/lenn...

Beard goals!

Trident Hotel in Dehli

In high school when 5% of your class doesn't like you it's like 3-5 people.

Running a company of 1,700+ when 5% doesn't like you, that's 85 people! That fills a room.

150k followers and 5% don't like you now you have a small stadium of 7,500 people.

It's still 5%.

YouTube video by Post Status Post Status Cache Up With Mary Hubbard

Get to know WordPress Executive Director Mary Hubbard in this casual chat about her experiences with e-commerce, technology, parenting, and more.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nJR...

New episode of The Logan Bartlett Show just dropped! Tune in to hear his convo with @ma.tt, where they discuss WordPress, open source innovations, the power of AI, why sabbaticals matter, and much more 🎙️

What's best way to get in touch for my team to set up a Zoom?

Happy to have a call or something, not sure how to resolve things in tweets.

What's in my bag, 2025 edition: ma.tt/2025/01/2025...

So to not have a crisis, myself and a hundred colleagues should provide free labor for you?

I support the mad king: https://www.manton.org/2024/12/21/i-support-the.html

Thank you, Manton, this is an awesome post.

Inc Hit Piece When Inc Magazine reached out to have David H. Freedman (website powered by WordPress) write a feature piece I was excited because though Inc wasn’t a magazine I have read much since I was a …

Inc Magazine did shoddy journalism and has published a hit piece: ma.tt/2024/12/inc-...

State of the Word Get ready for State of the Word 2024! Join WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg on December 16, 2024, as he celebrates the progress of the open source project and offers a glimpse into its future.

At #StateOfTheWord, we have a 'Publishing in the Open' discussion featuring:
📖 Mieko Kawakami: Acclaimed novelist, poet, and WordPress user
📸 Craig Mod: Visionary writer, photographer, and publisher
🌐 Matt Mullenweg: WordPress Cofounder

Request a ticket: wordpress.org/state-of-the...

#WordPress

WPAI is now part of Automattic! Together, we’re building smarter, faster, and more intuitive WordPress experiences. Welcome aboard James, Greg, and Ovi! automattic.com/2024/12/09/a...

atproto and bluesky has been built by a group of extremely talented and thoughtful engineers. it’s pretty remarkable.

that said, there was a key piece missing from the architecture! we forgot to first build a social app with hundreds of millions of users to advertise bluesky on.

WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg Is ‘More Energized’ Than Ever Amid WP Engine Battle “I make plans in decades. This is not a huge deal to me,” said the WordPress founder.

“I make plans in decades.”

@ma.tt shares his views on the WordPress/WP Engine conflict.

observer.com/2024/11/word... #OpenSource #WordPress