Entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg recently said that his motivation isn’t to make money, it’s to change the world. Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic and Audrey Capital, as well as a founding developer behind popular blogging platform WordPress. He says he believes that everyone who has changed the world is a type of entrepreneur. “It’s about drive and ambition, not owning a business or being a boss,” he said in an interview.
Mullenweg didn’t start a company as a kid, but he did have an obsession with business cards. “I thought all you needed to start a business was a business card, and I loved printing things and those perforated card sheets you could buy,” he said. “I’d make business cards for everything.” He may not be obsessed with business cards anymore, but he has an impressive startup resume. His first claim to fame was being a founding developer behind WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world. The inspiration for starting to blog came from reading blogs by Jeffrey Zeldman and Anil Dash. “I ended up using open source software called b2 on my own site, and when that project stopped development it became the base of WordPress,” he said. “In the beginning there were never any grand ambitions, I just wanted better software for my own blog and liked the idea of sharing the improvements I was making.” WordPress now powers over 60 million blogs, 16% of all websites.
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