Matt Mullenweg

“I believe 2015 we reached an agreement with the Woo founders to acquire them and have their team join, and there were 43 people at the time. The team was only a few developers, though it was only like three developers. Honestly, some of the code wasn't as like performant or scalable or other things, but I was like, oka...”

— From Matt Mullenweg Discusses Challenges and Growth in Modern Ecommerce, Open Channels FM Podcast Network (May 17, 2026)

“I would say the biggest threat is internal. When products like that fail, it's always because of execution. People think it's competitors, but it's not. So, I would say the biggest risk is our ability to execute against what we're hearing from the community and what we know that the software needs and then the roadmap....”

— From Matt Mullenweg Discusses Challenges and Growth in Modern Ecommerce, Open Channels FM Podcast Network (May 17, 2026)

“In 2026, the first question you have to ask yourself when you're choosing anything is am I choosing software which increases my freedom or decreases my freedom? Which is fundamentally the question am I choosing open source or not. So, really before you look at any features or anything else, I think you need to choose l...”

— From Matt Mullenweg Discusses Challenges and Growth in Modern Ecommerce, Open Channels FM Podcast Network (May 17, 2026)

“I think one of the biggest opportunities for WordPress and WooCommerce is education. And that's why I'm so excited about like the WordPress education credits program. Going to be doing a ton to enable meetups, to make meetups better, to get meetup organizers better, you know, material and support and everything like th...”

— From Matt Mullenweg Discusses Challenges and Growth in Modern Ecommerce, Open Channels FM Podcast Network (May 17, 2026)

“It'll be faster. We're going to turn our investments into performance. Updates will be seamless. I deal with a lot of things in the world, so despite people's perceptions of me, it actually takes a lot to get me like truly riled up. But the one thing that will do that without fail is when an update breaks a site. To me...”

— From Matt Mullenweg Discusses Challenges and Growth in Modern Ecommerce, Open Channels FM Podcast Network (May 17, 2026)

“I think if the founding fathers were around today I think they would be open source advocates. As you think about it as more and more of our lives are influenced and actually controlled by the software we use, if we don't have fundamental freedoms attached to that software we're not truly free.”

— From Why Matt Mullenweg Is Fighting for the Future of Open Source | Lenny's Podcast - EP.100, Think Deeper Now (August 06, 2024)

“Llama you can obviously download and run locally and all these sorts of things, right? However, there's a clause in it that says if you're above a certain threshold of monthly active users, I forget what it is, like it's big. It's like 750 million, so it's pretty high. You need a license from them. And so that does not...”

— From Why Matt Mullenweg Is Fighting for the Future of Open Source | Lenny's Podcast - EP.100, Think Deeper Now (August 06, 2024)

“In 2019, they got bought out by a private equity firm called Silverlake. And you know, anyone who follows business, you know, when private equity buys something, there's some good ones, but there's also many, many stories about how they can really kind of hollow things out, you know, really optimize for profits, become...”

— From Why Matt Mullenweg Is Fighting for the Future of Open Source | Lenny's Podcast - EP.100, Think Deeper Now (August 06, 2024)

“WordPress.org has always been me personally. And I think because it's, you know, part of the reason we started there is .com was not available. So when we started so like that's why we started on the .org and things like that but I think people also assume .org means nonprofit or something and that's sometimes true but...”

— From Why Matt Mullenweg Is Fighting for the Future of Open Source | Lenny's Podcast - EP.100, Think Deeper Now (August 06, 2024)

“We actually pay the same salaries globally. So whether you're in California or Italy or Nigeria or wherever, we pay global salaries.”

— From Why Matt Mullenweg Is Fighting for the Future of Open Source | Lenny's Podcast - EP.100, Think Deeper Now (August 06, 2024)

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— From Listen to the Live Scam Call Targeting Matt Mullenweg’s Apple Account, Jamie WP (March 05, 2026)

“The diffusion of their impact on the economy is still relatively small compared to what I think could happen.”

— From Matt Mullenweg CEO of Automattic: What is The Future of WordPress in a World of AI?, WP-Tonic (February 19, 2026)

“I don't envy them — they're the targets of nation states and geopolitics and, you know, countless billions or trillions in funding and value that's being sort of going between them in a hyperly competitive environment.”

— From Matt Mullenweg CEO of Automattic: What is The Future of WordPress in a World of AI?, WP-Tonic (February 19, 2026)

“In 2026 the first question you have to ask yourself when you're choosing anything is: am I choosing software which increases my freedom or decreases my freedom? Am I choosing open source or not.”

— From The Future of WooCommerce - A Conversation with Matt Mullenweg, Do the Woo Podcast (January 14, 2026)

“Shopify is impressive — they're quite impressive and they have, you know, six, seven thousand people and a 'bajillion dollars.'”

— From The Future of WooCommerce - A Conversation with Matt Mullenweg, Do the Woo Podcast (January 14, 2026)