Matt Mullenweg

Press

Below is a collection of links to press, podcasts, interviews, and speaking engagements over the years. I’ve been named one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. It’s probably all downhill from here.

If you need a press/conference headshot, try this, this, or this.

On this page

  1. Interviews
  2. Podcasts
  3. Press
  4. Speaking

Interviews

2025-12-02

Matt on TBPN for State of the Word 2025

TBPN

2025-06-06

Fireside chat with Judith Wolst: Humankind and Open Technology

Brilliant Minds 2025

2025-05-02

Fireside Chat with Tracy Britt Cool

Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting

2024-12-10

The Mind of Matt Mullenweg

University of Houston Magazine

2024-09-23

WPEngine & WordPress: Let’s discuss the drama, the issues and the solutions

Tia Wood (theWPGirls)

2024-06-07

Matt Mullenweg on Open Source, WordPress, Being a “Billionaire” and More

1111

2024-05-28

Matt Mullenweg on Open Source, WordPress, Money and More

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth

2024-02-02

Open vs. Closed: The Fight for a New Internet

TechAlter

2024-01-26

What’s New at WordPress

SaaStr

2024-01-30

Adding a work trial to your interview process

Lenny’s Newsletter

2024-01-25

Helping your online business be successful using the power of WordPress

WP Tonic

2023-12-19

How to Thrive in an AI World, Tips for Life’s Darkest Hours, & The Art of Sabbaticals

Tim Ferriss

2023-11-20

The Future Of WordPress

WPLaunchify

2023-09-28

Power stronger economies, create more equitable opportunities, and contribute to a more sustainable world.

Nasdaq Exchange

2023-09-14

AI and the Future of WordPress

Human Made

2023-05-29

WordPress Co-founder Matt Mullenweg on the Ai REVOLUTION

PootlePress

2022-08-02

Beyond Conversations: The Future of the Web, Content, and AI with Matt Mullenweg

Beyond Enterprize

2022-05-26

Interview on WordPress’ 19 anniversary

Post Status

2022-02-03

What compels people in modern work

Collective Forecast

2022-02-02

CNBC – TechCheck

CNBC

2021-12-28

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg lays out debate over future of the internet

CNBC

2021-08-21

Automattic Announces $288 Million Funding Round

Cheddar News – Closing Bell

2021-08-11

Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?

Protocol

2021-03-09

An Interview with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic

Inside.com

2020-10-09

Remote at work

Vitra

2020-09-15

Hosted by Millana Snow

Wellness Official

2020-08-27

Reimagining Business As Usual: Corporate Leaders on Moving Forward During Challenging Times

Salesforce

2020-07-15

Matt Mullenweg of WordPress: How a Fully Distributed Company Keeps Its Team Engaged

Inc. Magazine

2020-07-07

An Evangelist for Remote Work Sees the Rest of the World Catch On

New York Times

2020-07-02

Matt Mullenweg: „Wir sind büroagnostisch“

Capital Magazine

2020-06-25

“In Your Shoes” CEO Series Fireside chat moderated by Deven Perekh

Insight Partners

2020-06-25

What does distributed work bring?

Norvartis

2020-05-20

myfirstminute in conversation with Matt Mullenweg

Firstminute Capital

2020-05-04

How the founder of WordPress powers the internet with a distributed & remote team

Wired UK

2020-03-20

WordPress Wizard’s Top 10 Tips for Memrise

Memrise

2020-03-09

America Wakes Up?, An Interview with Matt Mullenweg About Working From Home

Stratechery

2020-01-20

The Distributed Advantage

Canvas Ventures

2019-08-23

What’s Next for Tumblr?

The New York Times

2019-08-13

Houston’s Matt Mullenweg talks about his acquisition of Tumblr

Houston Chronicle

2019-03-22

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg’s distributed company is neither here nor there – it’s everywhere

Houston Chronicle

2016-09-28

WordPress founder finds inspiration in his hometown of Houston

Chron

2016-09-11

Automattic has figured out the right tools for remote working

Quartz

2016-07-18

My conversation with Matt Mullenweg about domain names

Domain Name Wire

2016-03-04

Matt Mullenweg: How WordPress got the whole world blogging

The Irish Times

2016-02-08

Gracias a él se publica la cuarta parte de las webs del mundo: Matt Mullenweg, fundador de WordPress

El Pais

2014-06-11

An Extended Interview With WordPress Creator Matt Mullenweg

Forbes

2014-04-25

WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, interior designer click

SFGATE

2014-02-26

Change.org: Tech for Good

Commonwealth Club

2013-12-12

An Interview with Matt Mullenweg, The Lean Startup Conference 2013 – 12/9/13

Lean Startup Co.

2013-12-01

Matt Mullenweg: An Open Source

SOMA

2013-09-03

On a mission to democratise publishing – Matt Mullenweg interview

The Guardian

2013-08-19

The Cofounder Of WordPress On Using Publishing To Push Change

Fast Company

2013-08-08

GREAT PLACE TO WORK: At Automattic Employees All Work From Home And Travel To Exotic Locations

Business Insider

2013-07-29

The Word from WordPress: Catching Up With Matt Mullenweg

Time Tech

2013-01-15

How To…Have A Virtual Meeting

Fast Company

2012-10-31

Interview with WSJ’s Ben Rooney

Pioneers Festival

2012-09-18

Conversation #15 Matt & Halcyon “Make An Impact”

Halcyon

2012-09-04

Step Into the Office-Less Company

Wall Street Journal

2011-09-23

I am HISD

Video interview

2010-12-28

Big Omaha interview series

Robert Scoble

2010-12-12

Browsing the Platforms, with Toni Schneider

Le Web 2010 with Alexia Tsotsis

2010-12-02

The Big Web Show #29

Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin

2010-10-29

Live interview from Dublin

RTE One News (Ireland)

2010-10-20

Key to Open Source Success

Mashable

2010-10-15

Profile

Free Software Foundation

2010-09-15

The birth of Open Source and the future of software

The Economist Ideas Summit

2010-06-19

About Blogging’s Future, WordPress and Houston Technology

Houston Chronicle

2010-02-26

Going Virtual with Matt Mullenweg

Inc.

2010-02-24

WordPress.com Founder: The Cloud is Marketing Speak

ReadWriteWeb

2010-02-15

Why it Pays to Stay Faithful to Open Source

Silicon.com

2010-02-09

10 luminaries look ahead to the business of reading

Fortune

2009-09-10

Biography of WordPress

Mixergy

2009-06-30

Cool Geek of the Week: Matt Mullenweg

BornRich

2009-06-21

Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-founder

Weblog Tools Collection

2009-06-19

The Way I Work

Inc. Magazine

2009-06-01

The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg

Inc

2009-05-11

Interview with Matt Mullenweg

Daily Social

2009-02-28

The Blog Prince

Power Magazine

2009-02-26

Matt Mullenweg bilan suhbat (Uzbek)

UzBlogger

2009-01-10

WordPress Means Open Source, Cooperation and Helping Each Other: Exclusive Interview with Matt Mullenweg (Farsi)

SHomaha

2009-01-02

Matt, la vuelta al mundo en 5 millones de blogs (Spanish) (video)

La Nacion

2008-12-18

Two-Hour Interview with Matt Mullenweg

Weblog Tools Collection

2008-12-12

Interview with Matthew Mullenweg

Retire at 21

2008-12-01

Matt Mullenweg Reveals Future of WordPress (Part One)
Matt Mullenweg Reveals Future of WordPress (Part Two)

Fast Company

2008-11-17

Miravos.tv #5 (video) (Spanish)

Miravos.tv

2008-09-10

WordPress CMS Founder, Matt Mullenweg Interview

CMS Critic

2008-09-09

Matt Mullenweg Interviewed!

BlueVerse

2008-09-09

Interview of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Automattic Fame

SEOBook

2008-09-08

Il Giornale.it intervista l’ideatore di WordPress

Il Giornale.it

2008-08-13

Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory

ThemeShaper

2008-07-17

San Francisco Chronicle, business section cover story

San Francisco Chronicle

2008-07-01

Cover of Linux Journal, available on Amazon

Linux Journal

2008-06-05

Whuffie Factor interview with Tara Hunt

The Whuffie Factor

2008-05-13

10 questions with Matt Mullenweg

Young Go Getter

2008-05-12

Intruders.tv – Conversation with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (video)

Intruders TV

2008-02-05

Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg on Funding and Futures

Rocky Mountain Voices

2008-01-22

Matt Mullenweg, el chico Web (Spanish)

La Nacion

2007-11-09

WebProNews Video Interview at BlogWorld Expo

WebProNews

2007-10-11

WordPress makes a stand for open source morality

The Guardian

2007-09-20

CNET TV: Molly guest hosts with Tom, and Matt Mullenweg from WordPress stops by

CNET Live

2007-09-17

Interview with WordPress Founder Matt Mullenweg

BlogInterviewer.com

2007-08-21

Interview with Tim Ferriss of the 4-Hour Workweek on Simplicity

The Tim Ferriss Show

2007-08-14

Interview with BlogSecurity

BlogSecurity

2007-08-13

Video Wallstrip Chat with Lindsay Campbell

Wallstrip

2007-08-02

Interview with Adriaan Pienaar

adii

2007-07-30

Video interview with Anastasia Tubanos

WHIR TV

2007-05-15

Webware video interviews with Rafe Needleman part one
Webware video interviews with Rafe Needleman part two

CNET

2007-04-19

Interview by Oliver Lindberg

.net Magazine

2007-03-27

Building a Better Blogosphere

Sydney Morning Herald

2007-03-20

Мэтт Мюлленвег: «Я ­- самый невезучий игрок в покер» (Russian)

Habr

2007-03-19

Folksonomy interview

Folksonomy

2007-03-14

LAist SxSW video interview

LAist

2006-11-17

ENTREVISTA: MATT MULLENWEG, creador de WordPress (Spanish)

El Pais

2006-11-04

A Bigger Bang

Guardian UK

2006-10-30

Blogging Pro Interview

BloggingPro

2006-01-27

Houstonist Interview

Houstonist

2005-12-09

SiliconValley.com The Googleverse

SiliconValley.com

2005-12-07

An Interview with Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Creator

About.com

2005-11-30

Geek Entertainment TV videocast

Geek Entertainment

2005-10-26

Blogebrity interview

Blogebrity

2005-08-12

SFist Bay Blogger Thursday

SFist

2005-06-04

Why collaborate with Open Source tools

Corante

2004-11-24

Digital Web Interview

Digital Web Magazine

2004-10-18

The Blog Age

Houston Press

Podcasts

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2025-08-19

How WordPress Became a Web Giant

Grit by Kleiner Perkins

2025-07-11

How WordPress Powers 43% of the Internet

The Peel with Turner Novak

2025-06-30

Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress

Decoder with Nilay Patel

2025-06-20

Turning down $200 million and the big bets that led to powering 40% of the internet

The Eric Ries Show

2025-04-17

Lessons in longevity: How Matt Mullenweg scaled Automattic to $500M+ (and what’s next)

The SaaS Revolution Show

2025-03-02

Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand

Lenny’s Podcast

2025-02-07

WordPress Co-Founder: Lessons from Controversy, Navigating Backlash, & Future of Open Source AI

Logan Bartlett Show

2025-01-31

I Started WordPress at 19… Now It Powers 40% Of The Internet

My First Million

2024-10-16

Matt Mullenweg – Why Kindness?

Why Kindness?

2024-10-11

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg: WordPress vs WP Engine

World of DaaS with Auren Hoffman

2024-09-29

The WordPress Drama Interview (this got cited in a lawsuit lol)

Theo t3.gg

2024-09-27

Automattic vs WP Engine

The WP Minute

2024-09-26

Matt Talks About WordPress Situation

ThePrimeTime

2024-09-22

How Automattic’s Creed Shapes Its Culture and the Future of Open Source with Matt Mullenweg

Ryan Hawk

2024-07-10

Special Episode with Matt Mullenweg: “What Would Matt Do?”

WP Product Talk

2024-05-28

Matt Mullenweg Is Democratizing Publishing, Commerce, and Messaging

Good Work with Barrett Brooks

2024-03-05

Matt Mullenweg on the Challenges and Successes of Building a Remote-First Company

Freemius – Selling Software

2024-02-09

Special Episode with Matt Mullenweg

StellarWP

2024-01-01

Matt Mullenweg, Co-Founder of WordPress, on helping around half the internet and running Tumblr!

LegendsNLeaders

2023-12-13

Why Automattic spent $50M on Texts.com

TechCrunch Equity Podcast

2023-10-24

Supreme Court and Social Media, Cybertruck Troubles, and Guest Matt Mullenweg

Pivot

2023-10-23

The poster’s guide to the new internet

The VergeCast

2023-09-27

WordPress Co-founder Matt Mullenweg on Open Sources in Tech

Inside Sources w/Boyd Matheson

2023-08-08

Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg on open-sourcing social media

The Evening Standard

2023-06-02

Growth Mindset: Navigating the Path to Entrepreneurial Success with Matt Mullenweg

Whoop

2023-04-16

The ASYNC Work Culture at WordPress: Using an Internal Blogging System | Matt Mullenweg & Sam Corcos

Levels Culture

2023-03-06

Matt Mullenweg: WordPress, AI, and jazz

Design Better

2022-12-07

How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg

The Verge / Decoder

2022-06-23

Found: Matt Mullenweg, WordPress (Automattic)

TechCrunch Found

2022-06-21

20VC: Matt Mullenweg on Relationships to Risk, Money and Insecurity as a Leader

The Twenty Minute VC

2022-06-21

Making The Internet A Better Place

Corporate Unplugged

2022-06-15

Future of Technology and Where WordPress Fits In

WP Tavern Jukebox

2022-03-09

Free Libre Open Source Software

FLOSS Weekly

2022-03-08

How to Engineer Serendipity

Where It Happens

2022-03-04

How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird

Decoder

2022-01-21

How I Built This – WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg

NPR

2022-01-20

Wild Business Growth Podcast

Wild Business Growth

2022-01-19

Design Adjacent with Matt Mullenweg

AIGA

2022-01-17

Visionary Insights into the Web & Beyond with Matt Mullenweg

Do the Woo

2021-11-06

Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key

Farnum Street

2021-11-01

Greg Galant’s Podcast

Venture Voice

2021-03-11

WPCoffeeTalk: Matt Mullenweg

WP Coffee Talk

2021-02-01

Matt Mullenweg on pioneering remote work, investing in open-source, crypto & more

Jason Calacanis

2021-01-28

Startup Story Podcast hosted by James McKinney.

Startup Story

2021-01-27

The Remote Show Podcast hosted by Matthew Hollingsworth.

We Work Remotely

2020-11-19

Postlight podcast

Postlight

2020-10-06

Matt Mullenweg: Distributed teams, open source, and innovation

Harvard, Experfy

2020-09-20

Interview with Nathan Chan

Foundr

2020-08-20

Matt Mullenweg: Open Source Is THE Future

Lone Star Plate Podcast

2020-08-20

Lessons of Greatness: Be a Learn-it-All; not a Know-it-All

Starting Greatness Podcast

2020-06-12

Hosted by Kevin Kelly

Cool tools

2020-06-09

WooCommerce, Blocks, Open Source and Today’s World with Matt Mullenweg

Do The Woo

2020-04-21

Stuck@Om with Matt Mullenweg

Om.co

2020-03-23

Reid Hoffman’s podcast

Masters of Scale

2020-03-18

The New Future of Work

Making Sense

2020-03-17

It’s “Boss Level Mode” Time: Remote Work Pioneer Matt Mullenweg’s Tips For Staying Productive

First Contact

2019-08-14

Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

The Verge

2017-03-23

Do You Have Your Own Internal “Code”

The James Altucher Show

2016-10-01

Matt Mullenweg: Characteristics and Practices of Successful Entrepreneurs

Tim Ferriss

2015-08-11

How Matt Mullenweg built WordPress into a giant platform powering 1/4 of the Web

VentureBeat

2014-02-19

Episode 033: Dreless in Sea.tt.le

Dradcast

2011-01-07

Philosophy of Open Source

Stepping off the Edge podcast

2010-07-30

Ep 19: Whips a’Cracking

The Naked Marketers

2009-11-15

TWiST with Matt Mullenweg and Joel Spolsky (video)

This Week in Startups

2009-04-27

WPWeekly Episode 52: Matt Mullenweg Interview

WP Tavern

2009-03-31

iV Goes WordPress on Matt (video)

Club E Network

2008-11-24

Gangplank #13: The Big Guns Visit (podcast)

Gangplank

2008-11-17

“First Look: ‘Social Media Bible’ featuring BlogTalk Radio” (podcast)

Blog Talk Radio

2008-10-17

Matt Mullenweg Interview, Automattic acquires Intense Debate, discussion of WordCamps

The WordPress Podcast

2008-10-09

Netzpolitik-Podcast 070: Matt Mullenweg über WordPress (German)

Netzpolitik

2008-09-29

HorsePower #55 – Matt Mullenweg, WordPress (video)

Horsepower

2008-08-29

Social Media Bible Podcast

The Social Media Bible

2008-05-29

Matt Mullenweg loves his Kindle

Mashable podcast

2008-05-27

WordPress Weekly podcast

Weblog Tools Collection

2007-12-05

Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Founding Developer

Blog Talk Radio

2007-11-19

Episode 12: Random Bits Podcast with Matt Mullenweg

Random Bits Podcast

2007-08-07

Episode 76 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak

CrankyGeeks

2007-02-21

Nearthwort Obtain #14: WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg

Nearthwort

2007-02-13

Brian Oberkirch Edgework Podcast

Edgework

2006-11-29

Episode 38 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak

CrankyGeeks

2006-10-11

Episode 31 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak

CrankyGeeks

2006-07-28

Pro::PHP Webcast

Pro::PHP Webcast

2006-05-24

Startup Do’s and Don’ts with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic

PodSession

2006-03-20

About.com Entrepreneurs Podcast

About.com

2006-01-24

Dorm’d interview (podcast)

Dorm’d

2005-12-16

Podleaders Thought Leader podcast

PodLeaders

2005-08-30

Episode 1 – Matt Mullenweg

Web 2.0 Show

2005-07-26

Infotalk Podcast with John Furrier

PodTech

Press

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2023-12-13

Matt Mullenweg (WordPress): “As we adopt proprietary technology, we become less free”

Marketing4Ecommerce

2023-10-26

This tech CEO who earned $29 million last year doesn’t care where his staff work—he’s one of the bosses leading the return-to-office resistance by example

Fortune

2023-08-23

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks future of Tumblr, with algorithmic choice, AI enhancements and more

TechCrunch

2022-02-04

The Future of Work

WSJ

2021-08-12

What Is Company Culture If You Don’t Have an Office?

Bloomberg Business Week

2021-02-02

The WordPress community w/ Matt Mullenweg

Matt Report

2020-12-09

Optimizing Distributed Work

Balloon Flight

2020-08-18

Insights from our OpenSource roundtable

DataSeries

2020-03-19

Lessons Learned From an Expert in Distributed Workforce Engagement

YPO/IVY

2020-03-04

The Bosses Who Prefer When Employees Work From Home

WSJ

2019-10-16

Automattic Announces Mark Davies as Chief Financial Officer

PR Newswire

2019-10-04

Real Time With Remote Workers

Chief Executive

2019-09-19

WordPress.com owner Automattic raises $300 million

Axios

2019-08-13

Tumblr once sold for $1.1 billion. The owner of WordPress just bought the site for a fraction of that.

The Washington Post

2018-06-21

WordPress.com Owner Buys Atavist, Maker of Subscription-Offering Publishing Software

Wall Street Journal

2018-03-26

The WordPress Philosophy: The Four Freedoms

The Media Temple Blog

2018-02-15

For one-time NPR and NYT digital chief, a new adventure: WordPress

Poynter

2017-10-09

GitLab raises $20M Series C round led by GV

TechCrunch

2017-06-12

$1 billion startup Automattic is closing its San Francisco office and having everyone work from home

Business Insider

2017-06-12

The company behind WordPress is closing its gorgeous San Francisco office because its employees never show up

Quartz

2017-03-21

Tech Conferences Are Plentiful, But WordPress Conferences Are Perfectly Placed

Forbes

2016-12-15

WordPress founder signs pledge not to build Muslim registry

The Verge

2016-10-04

A Heinz Award for WordPress co-founder Mullenweg of Houston

Houston Chronicle

2016-09-22

40 Under 40

Fortune

2016-04-10

The open web is not going away

TechCrunch

2015-12-07

WordCamp US was such a big deal that Philly declared Dec. 5 ‘WordPress Day’

Technical.ly

2015-02-23

Bitcoin Payment Option Disappears from WordPress Platform

CoinDesk

2014-09-11

How Matt’s Machine Works

Fast Company

2014-04-10

Automattic, Steward of WordPress.com, Snaps Up Longreads

Bloomberg

2014-03-17

Matt Mullenweg, el programador tras el 19% de las webs del planeta

El Confidencial

2014-03-06

At Lavish SXSW Festival, Some Avoid Marketing Circus

Wall Street Journal

2014-01-13

Matt Mullenweg Becomes Automattic CEO As Toni Schneider Shifts Focus To New Products

TechCrunch

2014-01-07

Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes

Harvard Business Review

2013-12-16

20 Most Active Angel Investors

Forbes

2013-12-02

La biografia di Matt Mullenweg

Fastweb

2013-09-25

Automattic Acquires File-Sharing Service Cloudup To Build A Faster Media Library And Enable Co-Edit

TechCrunch

2013-09-18

Simplenote reborn: the first great notes app is back

The Verge

2012-09-05

With 60 Million Websites, WordPress Rules The Web. So Where’s The Money?

Forbes

2011-11-11

WordPress Founder: ‘Enterprise Software Sucks’

Wired Enterprise

2011-03-04

The Top 10 Most Influential People Online

Business Insider

2011-02-09

Meet the millionaire dropouts

AOL Small Business

2011-01-11

#3 of 30 Founders under 30

Business Insider

2010-12-02

TechFellow Product and Design award

TechCrunch

2010-11-22

It’s all about the author: The focus of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg

Forbes

2010-06-16

The Son of Gutenberg

Slate / Big Money

2010-04-18

Art Made at the Speed of the Internet: Don’t Say ‘Geek’; Say ‘Collaborator’

New York Times

2009-11-01

19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now — Matt Mullenweg

Inc.

2009-10-01

Agenda Setters 2009 – Matt Mullenweg

Silicon.com

2009-05-28

Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China

Agence France-Presse

2009-05-16

A Web That Speaks Your Language

NY Times

2009-01-28

WordPress Creator Mullenweg is Many Bloggers’ Best Friend

USA Today

2009-01-16

Google Taken to the Matt

San Francisco Business Times

2009-01-10

Interview with Matt (Farsi)

Mani Monajjemi

2008-11-24

Matt Mullenweg

Techstars

2008-11-01

Mr. WordPress

Brainstorm Magazine

2008-09-29

The 25 Most Influential People on the Web, The Publisher: Matt Mullenweg

Business Week

2008-09-22

30 Under 30: America’s Coolest Entrepreneurs

Inc.

2008-09-01

StartUP (video)

StartUP

2008-01-28

Prologue theme

WordPress.com News

2008-01-28

For a native of Houston, the big time (comments)

Houston Chronicle

2008-01-22

WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M

GigaOM

2008-01-22

Times Company in Group Investing in Blog Publisher

New York Times

2008-01-22

Automattic Lands Massive $29.5M for WordPress, Other Products

Techcrunch

2008-01-22

Cash Post: Blog Software Firm Gets $29 Million in Financing

Wall Street Journal

2008-01-22

Spurning purchase offers, Automattic raises round and partners with NYT

Venturebeat

2008-01-22

Automattic Series B

Techmeme

2007-11-13

WordPress Stands for Open Source, Morals, Democracy

The Snitch

2007-10-11

The office of the future is all around

The Guardian

2007-07-22

Brian Shields video report from WordCamp 2007

KRON 4

2007-07-12

Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers

The Guardian

2007-03-05

PC World 50 Most Important People on the Web (#16)

PC World

2007-03-04

Changing the Web at 21
(Digg comments)

Nate Whitehill dot Com

2007-01-18

Some Bling for Your Blog

NY Times

2006-09-18

Spam + Blogs = Trouble

Wired Magazine

2006-01-11

Yahoo Exec Exits for Automattic CEO Gig

GigaOM

2005-12-20

Mullenweg launches Automattic — to expand WordPress — scores Yahoo too

SiliconBeat

2005-11-30

Geekstars

Geekstars

2005-11-21

Blog Service Offered for Free

Red Herring

2005-06-23

Open Media 100

AlwaysOn

2005-05-31

RSS Updates Moving Beyond Pings

eWEEK

2005-03-28

By Google’s ranking, the world’s No. 1 Matt

SJ Mercury News

Speaking

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2025-10-17

Ma.tt Mullenweg “Town Hall/AMA”

WordCamp Canada 2025

2025-06-04

20 Years of Open Source

SXSW London 2025

2025-05-02

The Open Source Impact: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Building WordPress

SaaStock USA 2025

2025-02-25

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

WordCamp Asia 2025

2024-12-16

SOTW 2024

State Of the Word 2024

2024-12-06

WordPress Speed Build: Matt Mullenweg versus Jessica Lyschik

WordPress YT channel

2024-11-18

Fireside chat with Ma.tt Mullenweg at Nerdearla

Nerdlandia

2024-10-30

Matt Mullenweg: The Future of WordPress and the Web

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

2024-09-20

WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg’s Spiciest WordCamp Talk Ever!

WordCamp US 2024

2024-06-15

WordCamp Europe 2024: Matt Mullenweg Keynote Presentation

WordCamp Europe 2024

2024-06-15

WordCamp Europe 2024: Matt Mullenweg Q&A

WordCamp Europe 2024

1899-12-30

2024-06-15

WordPress Project Summer Update

WordCamp Europe 2024

2024-03-09

An In-person Q&A with WordPress Co-founder Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp Asia 2024

2024-02-01

Why You Should Take a Sabbatical

Ignite Talks

2023-12-11

State of the Word 2023, Madrid

State of the Word 2023

2023-12-06

Fireside Chat with Automattic CEO & Founder Matt Mullenweg

Open Source Summit

2023-11-15

Matt Mullenweg Recieves Xataka Legend Award

Xataka Legend Awards

2023-09-28

Keynote

Silicon Slopes Summit

2023-08-26

Gutenberg: Next with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp US 2023

2023-06-10

Variations on a theme: 20 years of WordPress

WordCamp Europe 2023

2023-03-12

I Was Right About Distributed Work, Now Listen About Open Source.

Human Kind

2023-02-19

AMA – Ask Matt Anything

WordCamp Asia 2023

2022-12-15

State of the Word 2022, New York City

State of the Word 2022

2022-09-10

A Chat with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp US 2022

2022-06-04

In Conversation: Matt, Matias and Josepha

WordCamp Europe 2022

2021-12-14

State of the Word 2021, New York City

State of the Word 2021

2021-06-07

Conversation with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp Europe 2021

2020-12-17

State of the Word 2020, Virtual

State of the Word 2020

2020-10-08

Houston NEXT: An ERG Summit – Fireside Chat with Matt Mullenweg

Illuminate Houston

2020-06-05

In Conversation with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp Europe 2020

2019-11-02

State of the Word 2019, St. Louis

WordCamp US 2019

2019-06-21

Matt on WordPress

WordCamp Europe 2019

2018-12-08

State of the Word 2018, Nashville

WordCamp US 2018

2018-06-15

A Summertime Update – Keynote and Q&A with Matt Mullenweg (Milky Way only!)

WordCamp Europe 2018

2017-12-02

State of the Word 2017, Nashville

WordCamp US 2017

2017-06-17

Interview and Q&A with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp Europe 2017

2016-12-03

State of the Word 2016, Philadelphia

WordCamp US 2016

2016-06-24

Interview and Q&A

WordCamp Europe 2016

2015-12-05

State of the Word 2015, Philadelphia

WordCamp US 2015

2015-06-26

Q&A with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp Europe 2015

2014-10-26

State of the Word 2014, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2014

2014-09-28

Q&A with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp Europe 2014

2014-02-24

LinkedIn Speaker Series: Reid Hoffman and Matt Mullenweg

LinkedIn

2013-10-06

Q&A with Matt Mullenweg

WordCamp Europe 2013

2013-07-27

State of the Word 2013, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2013

2012-12-06

Matt Mullenweg is Interviewed by Om Malik at LeWeb Paris 2012

LeWeb

2012-08-04

State of the Word 2012, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2012

2011-08-14

State of the Word 2011, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2011

2010-05-01

State of the Word 2010, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2010

2009-12-26

Interview with Liz Danzico

MFA Interaction Design Fall Lectures

2009-06-01

Entrepreneurial Wisdom From Necker Island (video)

IncomeDiary

2009-05-30

State of the Word 2009, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2009

2008-08-25

Matt Mullenweg – WordCamp South Africa 2008 (video)

WordCamp South Africa 2008

2008-08-16

State of the Word 2008, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2008

2008-03-07

How to Rock SxSW

SxSW Interactive Austin

2008-03-07

Considerations for Scalable Web Ventures

SxSW Interactive Austin

2008-02-28

The Architecture of WordPress

Future of Web Apps Miami

2008-02-23

Keynote – Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here?

Northern Voice Vancouver

2008-02-07

How to Build a High Growth Startup Fast and Cheap

SVASE

2008-02-04

Customer Service as Community
(video)

Customer Service is the New Marketing

2007-11-08

Keynote

BlogWorld Expo

2007-10-29

Keynote

Buenos Aires WordCamp Argentina

2007-10-03

Architecture of WordPress.com
Architecture of WordPress.com, slides

Future of Web Apps London

2007-07-21

HyperDB and High Performance WordPress

WordCamp San Francisco 2007

2007-07-21

State of the Word 2007, San Francisco

WordCamp San Francisco 2007

2007-07-06

Web 2.0 and Beyond

Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Santa Clara

2007-06-27

Marketing Power: Seize SEO, Blogs and Other Techniques

LT Pact Las Vegas

2007-05-31

Keynote

Greek Blogger Camp

2007-03-12

Scaling Your Community

SxSW 2007

2006-11-17

Keynote

Evento Blog España

2006-11-10

Beyond 100k Users?

Yahoo TechDev talk

2006-10-25

The Future of Blogging: Tools and Trends

Blog Business Summit

2006-10-12

Managing Blogs & Wikis in the Enterprise

Office 2.0 Conference

2006-10-03

Keynote: WordPress and Jazz, video
(slides)

Blogtalk Vienna

2006-09-13

The Future of Web Apps?
(slides) (mp3)

Future of Web Apps San Francisco

2006-08-08

The first 100k users are always the hardest
(mp3)

BayCHI

2006-08-05

State of the Word 2006, San Francisco

WordCamp

2006-07-20

Scaling for Your First 100k Users

Webvisions

2006-05-15

Is Web 2.0 Changing the Software Industry?

Mesh Conference (Toronto, Canada)

2006-04-17

Oddpost and WordPress/Automattic

SDForum Palo Alto

2006-03-28

We/Me Media: When YOU are the Content

iSummit 2006 (Toronto, Canada)

2006-03-11

Open Source panel

Barcamp Austin

2006-03-12

DIY Now More Than Ever

SxSW

2006-02-11

A Modest Proposal for Comment Spam

Northern Voice

2006-02-11

Getting Started with Blogging

Northern Voice

2006-02-10

Moose Camp

Moose Camp

2006-02-06

10 Reasons to Use WordPress as Your Next CMS

Open Source CMS Conference

2005-10-05

Open Source Infrastructure

Web 2.0 Conference (San Francisco, CA)

2005-09-24

Making Media with Open Source tools

Webzine

2005-09-24

Blog Wares Dance Off

Webzine

2005-11-02

RSS and Syndication (write-up)

Blogging Enterprise (Austin, TX)

2005-08-19

Organizer

Bar Camp Palo Alto (original)

2005-08-18

WordPress.com Announced

Blogging Business Summit (San Francisco, CA)

2005-08-18

Feedback from Presentation

Blogging Business Summit (San Francisco, CA)

2005-06-24

Tomorrow’s Open Source

Gnomedex (Seattle, WA)

2005-06-19

Open Source panel

Collaborative Technologies (New York, NY)

2005-04-15

Unstoppable Speech (or, The Revolution Will Be Podcast)

Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2005

2005-03-08

Podcasting BOF Dinner (very small)

Voice on the Net VON 2005