Matt, nickname of Matthew Charles Mullenweg is the founder of WordPress, the recently most used blogging software around the world. By this, some WordPress user call him The God of WordPress, as some Indonesian call Anang as The Blogger Prophet. :D

Matt was born on January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas. However, nowadays he is living in San Francisco, California. He is also the first man at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet. This company is still developing and programming any blogging software.

Like others success-men on technology, he also had dropped out from his college, University of Houston in October 2004. He moved to San Francisco the following month after recruited by CNET to work on WordPress for them.

After getting enough experience at CNET, he announced in October 2005 he was going out to focus on WordPress development full time. Since those days, he was starting to build WordPress as the future blogging engine. Firstly, he released Akismet and WordPress.com opened for public. After that, the following good days were with him by making and getting the best for WordPress.

In March 2007, he was named #16 of the 50 Most Important People on the Web by PC World. And finally, he was rumored to have turned down a US$200 million offer to buy his company Automattic.

So, what do we have to say to the God of WordPress?



Wait Matt! Who is Mark?

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