Below is a collection of links to press, interviews, and speaking engagements over the years. I’ve been named one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. It’s probably all downhill from here.
If you need a press/conference headshot, try this, this, or this.
- Haven’t updated this list in a while, best to check out the press tag on this blog, the Automattic news page, or a Google news query.
- Pioneers Festival: Interview with WSJ’s Ben Rooney — 2012-10-31
- Halcyon: Conversation #15 Matt & Halcyon “Make An Impact” — 2012-09-18
- Forbes: With 60 Million Websites, WordPress Rules The Web. So Where’s The Money? — 2012-09-05
- Wall Street Journal: Step Into the Office-Less Company — 2012-09-04
- Wired Enterprise: WordPress Founder: ‘Enterprise Software Sucks’ — 2011-11-11
- Video interview: I am HISD — 2011-09-23
- Business Insider: The Top 10 Most Influential People Online — 2011-03-04
- AOL Small Business: Meet the millionaire dropouts — 2011-02-09
- Business Insider: #3 of 30 Founders under 30 — 2011-01-11
- Stepping off the Edge podcast: Philosophy of Open Source — 2011-01-07
- Robert Scoble: Big Omaha interview series — 2010-12-28
- Le Web 2010 with Alexia Tsotsis: Browsing the Platforms, with Toni Schneider — 2010-12-12
- Jeffrey Zeldman and Dan Benjamin: The Big Web Show #29 — 2010-12-02
- TechCrunch: TechFellow Product and Design award — 2010-12-02
- Forbes: It’s all about the author: The focus of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg — 2010-11-22
- RTE One News (Ireland): Live interview from Dublin — 2010-10-29
- Mashable: Key to Open Source Success — 2010-10-20
- Free Software Foundation: Profile — 2010-10-15
- The Naked Marketers: Ep 19: Whips a’Cracking — 2010-07-30
- Houston Chronicle: About Blogging’s Future, WordPress and Houston Technology — 2010-06-19
- Slate / Big Money: The Son of Gutenberg — 2010-06-16
- The Economist Ideas Summit: The birth of Open Source and the future of software (video)
- New York Times: Art Made at the Speed of the Internet: Don’t Say ‘Geek’; Say ‘Collaborator’ — 2010-04-18
- Inc.: Going Virtual with Matt Mullenweg — 2010-02-26
- ReadWriteWeb: WordPress.com Founder: The Cloud is Marketing Speak — 2010-02-24
- Silicon.com: Why it Pays to Stay Faithful to Open Source — 2010-02-15
- Fortune: 10 luminaries look ahead to the business of reading — 2010-02-09
- MFA Interaction Design Fall Lectures: Interview with Liz Danzico — 2009-12-26
- This Week in Startups: TWiST with Matt Mullenweg and Joel Spolsky (video) — 2009-11-15
- Inc.: 19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now — Matt Mullenweg — 2009-11-01
- Silicon.com: Agenda Setters 2009 – Matt Mullenweg — 2009-10-01
- Mixergy: Biography of WordPress — 2009-09-10
- Cool Geek of the Week: Matt Mullenweg — 2009-06-30
- Interviews: Matt Mullenweg – WordPress Co-Founder — 2009-06-21
- Inc. Magazine: The Way I Work — 2009-06-19
- Tekzilla Episode 92: iPhone 3Gs, WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg, WD vs. Seagate… (video) — 2009-06-12
- Inc: The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg — 2009-06-01
- Entrepreneurial Wisdom From Necker Island (video) — 2009-06-01
- Agence France-Presse: Blogging guru chips away at Great Firewall of China — 2009-05-28
- NY Times: A Web That Speaks Your Language — 2009-05-16
- Interview with Matt Mullenweg — 2009-05-11
- WP Tavern: WPWeekly Episode 52: Matt Mullenweg Interview — 2009-04-27
- iV Goes WordPress on Matt (video) — 2009-03-31
- Power Magazine: The Blog Prince — 2009-02
- Matt Mullenweg bilan suhbat (Uzbek) — 2009-02-26
- USA Today: WordPress Creator Mullenweg is Many Bloggers’ Best Friend — 2009-01-28
- Google Taken to the Matt — 2009-01-16
- WordPress Means Open Source, Cooperation and Helping Each Other: Exclusive Interview with Matt Mullenweg (Farsi) — 2009-01-10
- Interview with Matt (Farsi) — 2009-01-10
- La Nacion: Matt, la vuelta al mundo en 5 millones de blogs (Spanish) (video) — 2009-01-02
- Two-Hour Interview with Matt Mullenweg — 2008-12-18
- Interview with Matthew Mullenweg — 2008-12-12
- Fast Company: Matt Mullenweg Reveals Future of WordPress (Part One); Matt Mullenweg Reveals Future of WordPress (Part Two) (video) — 2008-12-01
- Techstars: Matt Mullenweg — 2008-11-24
- Gangplank #13: The Big Guns Visit (podcast) — 2008-11-24
- Miravos.tv #5 (video) (Spanish) — 2008-11-17
- “First Look: ‘Social Media Bible’ featuring BlogTalk Radio” (podcast) — 2008-11-17
- Brainstorm Magazine: Mr. WordPress — 2008-11-01
- The WordPress Podcast: Matt Mullenweg Interview, Automattic acquires Intense Debate, discussion of WordCamps – 2008-10-17
- Netzpolitik-Podcast 070: Matt Mullenweg über WordPress (German) – 2008-10-09
- Business Week: The 25 Most Influential People on the Web, The Publisher: Matt Mullenweg – 2008-09-29
- HorsePower #55 – Matt Mullenweg, WordPress (video) – 2008-09-29
- Inc.: 30 Under 30: America’s Coolest Entrepreneurs – 2008-09-22
- WordPress CMS Founder, Matt Mullenweg Interview – 2008-09-10
- Matt Mullenweg Interviewed!– 2008-09-09
- Interview of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Automattic Fame – 2008-09-09
- Il Giornale.it intervista l’ideatore di WordPress– 2008-09-08
- StartUP (video) – 2008-09-01
- Social Media Bible Podcast – 2008-08-29
- Matt Mullenweg – WordCamp South Africa 2008 (video) – 2008-08-25
- Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory – 2008-08-13
- San Francisco Chronicle, business section cover story – 2008-07-17
- Cover of Linux Journal, available on Amazon – 2008-07-01
- Whuffie Factor interview with Tara Hunt – 2008-06-05
- Matt Mullenweg loves his Kindle, Mashable podcast – 2008-05-29
- WordPress Weekly podcast – 2008-05-27
- 10 questions with Matt Mullenweg – 2008-05-13
- Intruders.tv – Conversation with Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress (video) – 2008-05-12
- Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg on Funding and Futures – 2008-02-05
- Prologue theme – 2008-01-28
- Houston Chronicle – For a native of Houston, the big time, comments – 2008-01-28
- Automattic Series B – GigaOM, New York Times, Techcrunch, Wall Street Journal, Venturebeat, Techmeme – 2007-01-22.
- La Nacion – Matt Mullenweg, el chico Web (Spanish) – 2007-12-20
- Blog Talk Radio – 2007-12-05
- Random Bits Podcast – 2007-11-19
- WordPress Stands for Open Source, Morals, Democracy – 2008-11-13
- WebProNews Video Interview at BlogWorld Expo – 2007-11-09
- The Guardian – WordPress makes a stand for open source morality – 2007-10-11
- The Guardian – The office of the future is all around – 2007-10-11
- CNET TV – 2007-09-20
- Blog Interviewer – 2007-09-17
- Interview with Tim Ferriss of the 4-Hour Workweek on Simplicity – 2007-08-21
- Interview with BlogSecurity – 2007-08-14
- Video Wallstrip Chat with Lindsay Campbell – 2007-08-13
- Episode 76 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak – 2007-08-07
- Interview with Adriaan Pienaar – 2007-08-02
- Video interview with Anastasia Tubanos – 2007-07-30
- KRON 4 – Brian Shields video report from WordCamp 2007 – 2007-07-22
- The Guardian – Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers – 2007-07-12
- CNET Webware video interviews with Rafe Needleman part one and part two – 2007-05-15
- .net Magazine — Interview by Oliver Lindberg — 2007-04-19
- Sydney Morning Herald – Building a Better Blogosphere – 2007-03-27
- ???? ?????????: «? – ????? ????????? ????? ? ?????» (Russian) – 2007-03-20
- Folksonomy interview – 2007-03-19
- LAist SxSW video interview – 2007-03-14
- PC World 50 Most Important People on the Web (#16) – 2007-03-05
- Changing the Web at 21, Digg comments – 2007-03-04
- Nearthwort Podcast – 2007-02-21
- Brian Oberkirch Edgework Podcast – 2007-02-13
- NY Times – Some Bling for Your Blog – 2007-01-18
- Episode 38 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak – 2006-11-29
- El Pais – ENTREVISTA: MATT MULLENWEG, creador de WordPress (Spanish) – 2006-11-17
- Guardian UK – A Bigger Bang – 2006-11-04
- Episode 31 – Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak – 2006-10-11
- Blogging Pro Interview – 2006-10-30
- Wired Magazine – Spam + Blogs = Trouble – 2006-09-18
- Pro::PHP Webcast – 2006-07-38
- Startup Do’s and Don’ts with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic – 2006-05-24
- About.com Entrepreneurs Podcast – 2006-03-20
- Houstonist Interview – 2006-01-27
- Dorm’d interview (podcast) – 2006-01-24
- Yahoo Exec Exits for Automattic CEO Gig – 2006-01-11
- Mullenweg launches Automattic — to expand WordPress — scores Yahoo too – 2005-12-20
- Podleaders Thought Leader podcast – 2005-12-16
- SiliconValley.com The Googleverse – 2005-12-09
- About.com – An Interview with Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Creator – 2005-12-07
- Geek Entertainment TV videocast – 2005-11-30
- Geekstars – 2005-11-30
- Red Herring – Blog Service Offered for Free – 2005-11-21
- Blogebrity interview – 2005-10-26
- Web 2.0 Show podcast– 2005-08-30
- SFist Bay Blogger Thursday – 2005-08-12
- Infotalk Podcast with John Furrier– 2005-07-26
- Open Media 100 – 2005-06-23
- Corante – Why collaborate with Open Source tools – 2005-06-04
- RSS Updates Moving Beyond Pings – 2005-05-31
- SJ Mercury News: By Google’s ranking, the world’s No. 1 Matt – 2005-03-28
- Digital Web Interview – 2004-11-24
- Houston Press – The Blog Age – 2004-10-18
Speaking
I obviously haven’t updated this list since 2008. If you’re looking for one thing to check out, listen to the BayCHI “first 100k users are alway the hardest” recording, it’s one of my best.
- SxSW Interactive Austin – 2008-03-07
- Future of Web Apps Miami – 2008-02-28
- The Architecture of WordPress
- Northern Voice Vancouver – 2008-02-23
- Keynote – Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here?
- SVASE- 2008-02-07
- Customer Service is the New Marketing – 2008-02-04
- Customer Service as Community – video
- BlogWorld Expo – 2007-11-08
- Keynote
- Buenos Aires WordCamp Argentina – 2007-10-29
- Keynote
- Future of Web Apps London – 2007-10-03
- Architecture of WordPress.com. slides – mp3
- WordCamp San Francisco– 2007-07-21
- Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Santa Clara – 2007-07-06
- Web 2.0 and Beyond
- LT Pact Las Vegas – 2007-06-27
- Marketing Power: Seize SEO, Blogs and Other Techniques
- Greek Blogger Camp
- Keynote
- SxSW 2007 – 2007-03-12
- Evento Blog España – 2006-11-17
- Keynote
- Yahoo TechDev talk – 2006-11-10
- Beyord 100k Users?
- Blog Business Summit – 2006-10-25
- The Future of Blogging: Tools and Trends
- Office 2.0 Conference – 2006-10-12
- Managing Blogs & Wikis in the Enterprise
- Blogtalk Vienna – 2006-10-03
- Future of Web Apps San Francisco – 2006-09-13
- BayCHI – 2006-08-08
- WordCamp – 2006-08-05
- State of the Word
- Webvisions – 2006-07-20
- Scaling for Your First 100k Users
- Mesh Conference – 2006-05-15 (Toronto, Canada)
- Is Web 2.0 Changing the Software Industry?
- SDForum Palo Alto – 2006-04-17
- Oddpost and WordPress/Automattic
- iSummit 2006 (Toronto, Canada) – 2006-03-28
- We/Me Media: When YOU are the Content
- Barcamp Austin — Open Source panel
- SxSW 2006
- Northern Voice
- A Modest Proposal for Comment Spam
- Getting Started with Blogging
- MooseCamp
- Open Source CMS Conference – 2006-02-06
- 10 Reasons to Use WordPress as Your Next CMS
- Web 2.0 Conference (San Francisco, CA)
- Open Source Infrastructure
- Webzine
- Making Media with Open Source tools
- Blog Wares Dance Off
- Blogging Enterprise (Austin, TX)
- RSS and Syndication (write-up)
- Bar Camp Palo Alto (original)
- Organizer
- Blogging Business Summit (San Francisco, CA)
- Gnomedex (Seattle, WA)
- Tomorrow’s Open Source
- Collaborative Technologies (New York, NY)
- Open Source panel
- Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2005
- Unstoppable Speech (or, The Revolution Will Be Podcast)
- Voice on the Net VON 2005
- Podcasting BOF Dinner (very small)