We’re excited to announce that Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of the favored running a blog platform WordPress, can be taking the Disrupt Stage at Ztoog Disrupt 2024.
When Mullenweg first began engaged on WordPress, he was a 19-year-old jazz fanatic and photographer in Texas who observed the running a blog software program that he used had been stagnating — so he determined to construct his personal open supply platform, forked from an current mission.
The first model of WordPress was launched in May 2003. From these modest beginnings, it has expanded to change into an almost ubiquitous content material administration system powering most of the internet’s best-known publishers, together with Ztoog. By some counts, it’s utilized by greater than 40% of internet sites.
Mullenweg additionally serves as CEO of Automattic, which affords internet hosting and different industrial providers on prime of WordPress and was valued at $7.5 billion in 2021. Among different issues, Automattic operates the spam filtering Akismet, the e-commerce plugin WooCommerce, and the running a blog platform Tumblr (acquired from Verizon). And if that wasn’t sufficient, Mullenweg additionally invests in startups via Audrey Capital.
As WordPress and Automattic have grown, and as Mullenweg has change into one of many main voices in open supply software program, they’ve additionally confronted their share of controversies. For instance, they’ve struggled to show Tumblr right into a sustainable enterprise, and in latest months they’ve been locked in a authorized battle with one other WordPress-hosting firm, WP Engine.
So there can be a lot to debate with Mullenweg on the Disrupt Stage at Disrupt 2024 — about his founder journey, his challenges, and what’s subsequent for WordPress and the online — when he joins us subsequent week. It’s a dialog you received’t need to miss!
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