Matt Mullenweg
Independent Director at Field Effect
Houston, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2014 - Current
Automattic was created to democratize publishing and commerce. It's structured as a holding company, like Berkshire Hathaway, with sub-CEOs and four main revenue lines: consumer subscriptions, enterprise, ecommerce services, and advertising. We're behind brands you know like WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, Simplenote, Pocket Casts, Day One...
Founder / President
2005 - 2014
Shortly after Automattic was founded Toni Schneider joined as CEO, and over the next eight years I learned a tremendous amount from his leadership. He passed torch of the CEO role to me a few days after my thirtieth birthday.
Automattic is a global tech company that offers WordPress, WooCommerce, and other web solutions.
Raised $985,900,000.00 from Avant Global, BlackRock, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, Aglaé Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, ICONIQ Capital, Wellington Partners and Alta Park Capital.
Co-founder, Lead Developer
2003
Started as a simple open source blogging platform, at the beginning of 2022 WordPress powers over 43% of the top websites in the world. My roles with WordPress have spanned development, support, design, systems, event planning, janitorial, and public advocacy — thankfully, the community now includes people far better than me at all those tasks.
WordPress offers web publishing software that can use to create websites or blogs.
Principal
2008
Angel investment and research company, a way for me to pay it forward the warm entrepreneurial help and guidance I received when I moved to San Francisco. 100+ investments, including successful exits in SendGrid, Ring, Blue Bottle Coffee, SmartThings, Typekit, August, Hipmunk, Divide, Makerbot, Gitlab; some fun ongoing companies with Calm, Elysium, Stellar, AngelList, Gusto, Over, Hint Water, Memrise, Getaround, Zero, Brilliant, StyleSeat, Stripe, SpaceX, Syng, and Wealthfront.
Independent Director
2022
Board Member
2017
ecoAmerica is a non-profit building climate leadership, public support, and political will for climate solutions in the United States.
ecoAmerica offers solutions and services that focus on the climate system in America.
Board Member
2019 - 2024
New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. It is Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum
Board Member
2010 - 2021
Non-profit dedicated to environmental journalism, published using WordPress at Grist.org.
Board Observer
2019 - 2021
Was very exciting to join the board of this fully distributed and remote-first company, and see them through their IPO NASDAQ:GTLB. I learned a ton from Sid Sijbrandij and Gitlab, and the company continues to inspire me. They epitomize transparency, directness, distributed, and remote culture.
Board Member
2017 - 2019
GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager that offers a variety of features for software development teams.
Raised $413,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Management Corporation, ICONIQ Growth, Alkeon Capital, Light Street Capital, D1 Capital Partners, Coatue, Two Sigma Private Investments, Adage Capital Management and Tiger Global Management.
Senior Product Manager
2004 - 2005
Open Source and new product development.
CNET is an online platform that provides tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, podcasts, how to's, and more.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Spark Capital and TCV.