Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, the open source platform powering a staggering 43% of the internet. He also serves as CEO of Automattic—the parent company of brands like WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr—which is worth over $7 billion, with over 1,700 employees across 90 countries.
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Growth & Retention Skills
Building a successful open-source community requires treating the product as a movement where a self-sustaining flywheel of collaboration drives growth beyond the creator's vision.
"WordPress is still, because we have this flywheel of open source community, its movements, any open source like Linux or Apache or Wikipedia, it has some positive flywheel effects when it takes off."