Matt Mullenweg Net Worth

Net Worth:	$400 Million
Date of Birth:	January 11, 1984 (40 years old)
Gender:	Male
Profession:	Entrepreneur
Nationality:	United States of America

What is Matt Mullenweg’s Net Worth?

Matt Mullenweg is an American online social media businessman and web developer who has a net worth of $400 million. The WordPress Foundation, which is in charge of running WordPress, is most recognized for having Matt Mullenweg as its principal developer.

Additionally, he established Automattic, Inc., the for-profit division of WordPress.com that specializes in web development. An offer of $200 million to buy Automattic was reportedly rejected by Matt in 2009.

Childhood

Matthew Charles Mullenweg was born on January 11, 1984, in Houston, Texas. He attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts as a teen and majored in jazz saxophone there. Mullenweg continued to study political science at the University of Houston but left in 2004 to focus on his business career.

Career

In 2003, while Mullenweg was a college freshman, he and the English programmer Mike Little released WordPress, a free and open-source content management system.

The platform was first designed for publishing blogs, but it has since expanded to accommodate a number of other forms of web content, such as mailing lists, media galleries, online shops, and learning management systems.

Late in 2004, CNET hired Mullenweg to integrate WordPress into the website and assist the business with blogs and other media products. Along with Eric Meyer and Tantek Celik, Mullenweg co-founded the Global Multimedia Protocols Group while still a student.

By creating the XFN microformat, the group was able to depict human interactions through the XHTML Friends Network. Mullenweg established Automattic in the summer of 2005 to manage his expanding list of web services.

Akismet, a program that filters spam from online comments, trackbacks, and contact form messages, was his first significant brand to be made available through the business. A short while later, Mullenweg introduced WordPress.com, a self-publishing platform that quickly became the most widely used host for blogs worldwide.

Mullenweg succeeded Toni Schneider as CEO of Automattic at the beginning of 2014. Since its creation, Automattic has rapidly grown thanks to the millions of dollars in venture money it has raised and the numerous well-known companies it has acquired. Such brands as Longreads, Gravatar, Sensei, Cloudup, WPScan, Newspack, and Jetpack have been added to its portfolio.

Accolades

In recognition of his contributions to business and technology, Mullenweg has received multiple awards. He was given the Temple University Information Technology Innovator Award in 2008. He appeared on numerous lists of the most important online influencers during the ensuing years, including those published by BusinessWeek, Business Insider, and Forbes.

Charity Works

On the charitable front, Mullenweg backs non-profit groups like the Innocence Project, the Long Now Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Free Software Foundation. Additionally, he has contributed significantly to the San Francisco art project “Bay Lights” as well as the Charity Water.

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