If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love,… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
