About Matt Mullenweg
![Myself in my best dress](http://web.archive.org./web/20100925031002im_/http://s.ma.tt/about-old/pics/boy-noshadow.jpg)
Howdy. My name is Matthew Mullenweg. I'm a kid born and raised in Houston, Texas. I write code, prose, and music. I've taken a few pictures too.
WordPress
I am the founding developer of WordPress, the blogging software that runs much of this site and millions of other sites around the world. The website says WordPress is “a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform” but more importantly WordPress is a part of who I am. Like eating, breathing, music, I can’t not work on WordPress. The project touches a lot of people, something I’ve recently begun to appreciate. I consider myself very lucky to be able to work on something I love so much.
I wrote the foreword to WordPress for Dummies and the French WordPress book.
Professional
I used to do consulting and go to school in Houston, then I moved to San Francisco where I worked at CNET Networks.
I left in late 2005 to found a new startup Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, bbPress, IntenseDebate, BuddyPress, and more to come.
I have been or am currently an adviser or invester to Sphere, WeGame, Rescuetime, Foodzie, Typekit, and a few more.\
See also: Wikipedia article, CrunchBase profile.