Beyond Conversations: The Future of the Web, Content, and AI with Matt Mullenweg
On Tuesday August 2nd at 10AM PDT we will have Matt Mullenweg, CEO and Co-Founder of Automattic, on our livestream, live on Facebook, YouTube or Linkedin.
About Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg is a co-founder of WordPress, an open-source blogging platform on the web. He is also the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Jetpack, and Audrey Capital, an investment and research company.
WordPress is a platform used to build about 455 Million websites, and that number only continues to grow. Considering there are about 1.3 billion total websites across the internet, that's an impressive number. Not only that, but Automattic also incorporates other services like Tumblr, Longreads and Gravatar. Join us for this exciting episode where we will have the co-founder of WordPress himself, Matt Mullenweg, responding to our questions about the future and what his work entails.
Matt got his start in technology working at CNET Networks as a senior product manager. He went on to found GlobalMultimedia Protocols Group, an experimental metamemetics company, to develop open data formats. He has been recognized for his leadership and success by Forbes, BusinessWeek, INC., PC World, and Vanity Fair.
Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the high school for the performing and visual arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, Matt is an avid photographer.
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About Automattic
Automattic are the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Simplenote, Longreads, VaultPress, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, and more. They believe in making the web a better place.
They’re a distributed company with 2,033 Automatticians in 96 countries speaking 119 different languages. They’re committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and their common goal is to democratize publishing and commerce so that anyone with a story can tell it, and anyone with a product can sell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.
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