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Co-founding WordPress at 19, Mullenweg built the open-source CMS now powering over 40 percent of the internet, while scaling Automattic — home to Tumblr and WooCommerce — into a $7.5 billion distributed-first company spanning dozens of countries.
Matt Mullenweg co-founded WordPress, the open-source content management system that powers more than 40 percent of all websites, and founded Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and Jetpack.
He co-founded WordPress in 2003 at age 19. Automattic, valued at $7.5 billion, employs thousands of distributed workers across dozens of countries and is among the most prominent remote-first technology companies.
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