Matt Mullenweg: WordPress, AI, and jazz

<p><em>Get the show transcript, bonus content, and access to episodes a week early on our Substack: <a href= "https://thecuriositydepartment.substack.com/">https://thecuriositydepartment.substack.com/</a></em></p> <p>Matt Mullenweg started out as a jazz saxophonist, and went on to create WordPress, which is the platform behind an astonishing 42% of the websites in the world.</p> <p>We chat with Matt about his journey from musician to developer to entrepreneur, his perspective on distributed work, and his thoughts on the transformative capabilities of the latest generation of Generative Artificial Intelligence.</p> <p>We also come back to Matt’s roots in jazz and his continued love for music and musicians.</p> <div class="subscription-widget-wrap"> <div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"> <div class="preamble"> <h3 class="header-with-anchor-widget"><strong>Bio</strong></h3> <div id="§bio" class="header-anchor-widget offset-top"></div> <p><em>(via Wikipedia)</em></p> <p>Matthew Mullenweg is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. He is known for developing and founding the free and open-source web software WordPress, and its parent company Automattic.</p> <p>After dropping out of the University of Houston, he worked at CNET Networks from 2004 to 2006 until he quit and founded Automattic, an internet company whose brands include WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal, and Tumblr.</p> <p> ***</p> <p>Help us make the show even better by taking a short survey:<a href="https://www.dbtr.co/survey" rel= "nofollow ugc noopener"> www.dbtr.co/survey</a></p> <p>If you're interested in sponsoring the show, please contact us at: <a href="mailto:sponsors@thecuriositydepartment.com" rel= "nofollow ugc noopener">sponsors@thecuriositydepartment.com</a></p> <p>If you'd like to submit a guest idea, please contact us at: <a href="mailto:contact@thecuriositydepartment.com" rel= "nofollow ugc noopener">contact@thecuriositydepartment.com</a></p> <div>***</div> <div> </div> <