Matt Mullenweg

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.

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.

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.

Board Member

2019 - 2024

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

Senior Product Manager

2004 - 2005

Open Source and new product development.