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| Matt Mullenweg, The Founder of WordPress |
"One of six existing websites is on the internet Powered by WordPress", According to data from WordPress.
There are approximately 66.283 million websites around the world who use the WordPress platform. WordPress users produce approximately 41.5 million and 53.2 million new content every month a new comment.
It is undeniable that the content on the internet is still dominated by the English language. WordPress itself, English language dominates with 66 percent, Spanish language follow by 8.7 percent, 6.5 percent and Portuguese.
WordPress is currently the platform content management system (CMS) for some well-known websites, such as CNN, Reuters, The New York Times, TechCrunch, and others.
The success of WordPress as a CMS platform is also supported by a strong ecosystem and support from the open source community of technology advocates. There are many parties who provide themes, plug - in, hosting, customization solutions specific to WordPress.
Figure Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg is a lover of music, especially jazz. That's why his creation, the popular blogging platform WordPress, has a code name to the name of a famous jazz musician.
“More importantly, WordPress is a part of me. Such as eating, breathing, music, and WordPress "said Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress.
WordPress originated from Open Source software called b2 / cafelog. The founders were Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. On its website, WordPress was born out of a desire to mention a personal publishing system that has a good and elegant architecture based on PHP and MySQL, and of course with the Open Source GPL license.
Although initially a fraction of b2 / cafelog, WordPress has now become its own software and official successor of b2. Founder b2, Michael Valdrighi, even helped to developers at WordPress. Name WordPress proposed by Christine Selleck, a friend of Matt.
Saxophone players from Texas
“I listen to music every day, a lot of Jazz - Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. I also like Jay - Z and Beyonce. I have an analog stereo devices are made by hand in Japan by someone who just made a few devices in a year. Aural experience (of the device) is really amazing. "
Matt was born in a family familiar with computers. His father is a computer engineer in Houston, Texas. His mother is a housewife.
Since childhood, Matt has led to love music, especially their family's favorite instrument: the saxophone. He had already studied the instrument since childhood.
As a teenager, Matt put into a special arts high school, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, where Matt majored in Jazz studies.
But fate cannot be avoided, at school Matt even more to develop its technical capabilities. He often did the network settings and chairs a Palm fan group. Shortly thereafter, Matt began writing software code compilers. Since high school he has been involved in various Open Source software.
At the age of 19 years, Matt left the campus at the University of Houston and worked at CNET, San Francisco. His new job allows keeping working on Open Source projects.
Mullenweg She recalled the early days of Matt leaving Houston, at a very young age. “It was the hardest thing I've ever done. But then I met Om (Malik, of GigaOm) and Tony (Conrad, a web entrepreneur) and other friends. Om says; do not worry, if there is something we will be in touch. As a mother, it's just I want to hear, “she said in an interview on SFGate.
Matt craze in jazz music also appears on WordPress, any major version of WordPress has always given the code name of the name of a famous jazz musician. It started since WordPress 1.2 (Mingus) and continues until version 3.0 (Thelonious).
Large clients
“We want to be like Google, eBay, Amazon - this they allow others to make more money than they get. And that in the end we want to achieve. We tried to create a movement, "said Matt about the business model of WordPress.
The business model of WordPress is Open Source, meaning that all code compiler software is distributed freely. However Automattic also provides VIP services, a support service for clients who need a WordPress user.
List of major companies that use WordPress is overlap. Ranging from media companies such as CNN, Wired to the New York Times, and also companies ' upper class ' such as Ford, Sony, National Geographic and Nikon.
In addition to WordPress itself, Automattic also produces other products. Including bbPress, a software for online forums, or IntenseDebate, a comment system that can be used in a variety of platforms.
Automattic also produce Anti- Spam tool called Akismet, which was originally developed by Matt. When making it, Matt said, he thought of his mother.
Matt would like Akismet to prevent spam so that his mother, when creating a blog, not flooded Viagra ad and thought that it was related to his job. Presumably, Matt is the largest client of the mother.
“My mom finally made a blog. Six years to develop this, and we finally could make it easy enough so that my mother could use it, “said Matt in 2009.
“Gift “50 million U.S. dollars
Coinciding with the anniversary of the 10th of WordPress, Automattic has completed an investment deal with an investor Tiger Global Management with a value of 50 million U.S. dollars. Investment funds are used, among other things, to buy some of the shares owned by early investors Automattic.
Prior to this, Automattic had received an investment from the New York Times of 29 million U.S. dollars, and received funding from previous investors, including Polaris Partners, True Ventures and Radar Partners.
Most of the revenue comes from subscription fees WordPress users. To the technology website AllThingsD, executive Automattic one ever said that the company's revenue in 2012 reached 45 million U.S. dollars.
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