Matt Mullenweg.

Matt Mullenweg is the Co-Founder of WordPress, the open-source content management system that powers over 40 percent of all websites on the internet, and the Founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and Jetpack.

Mullenweg co-founded WordPress in 2003 at age 19 and has overseen its evolution into the most widely used web publishing software in the world. Automattic has grown into a global company valued at $7.5 billion with thousands of distributed employees across dozens of countries-one of the most successful remote-first companies in technology. Mullenweg is a prominent advocate for open-source software, distributed work, and internet freedom. He has been named to Forbes' 40 Under 40 and Time's 100 Most Influential People. His acquisitions of Tumblr from Yahoo and WooCommerce have expanded Automattic's influence across the publishing and e-commerce ecosystems. Mullenweg's unique combination of open-source leadership, commercial entrepreneurship, and philosophical commitment to an open web has made him one of the most influential figures in internet infrastructure.