{"id":93,"date":"2015-05-27T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2015-05-27T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T01:20:10","slug":"matt-mullenweg-of-automattic-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Funegosyo Show #5 &#8211; How One of the Most Influential People on the Internet Builds His Team, With Matt Mullenweg of Automattic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94\" src=\"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/FunegosyoShow05_MattMullenweg_Automattic.png\" alt=\"Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we have <strong>the show&#8217;s first billionaire guest<\/strong>. We&#8217;re talking about several million US dollars in net worth, equivalent to a few billion Philippine pesos. So yeah, he qualifies as a billionaire in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Mullenweg<\/strong> is best known as the co-creator of WordPress, which is the godfather of blogging platforms. WordPress powers <strong>over 22% of the entire Internet<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Matt is the founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automattic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Automattic<\/a>, the company behind WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>Just to put things in perspective, Automattic is now <strong>valued at over 1 Billion Dollars<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-105 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/OneBillionDollars_DrEvil.jpg\" alt=\"One Billion Dollars - Dr. Evil\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From quickmeme.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His personal blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ma.tt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this short episode, we&#8217;ll learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the founder of a company doesn&#8217;t have to be the CEO right away<\/li>\n<li>His vision for his company, encapsulated in this quote:<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t make more blogs to make more money, we _____&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>How he sets his mindset to push himself\u00a0and his company forward, despite being number 1.<\/li>\n<li>What he looks for in team members,\u00a0and how involved he is in the process even as the CEO<\/li>\n<li>Common mistake of entrepreneurs when hiring employees.<\/li>\n<li>Plus a bunch of other tidbits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And we have a new segment on the show, the &#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong>Word of the Episode<\/strong>&#8220;:<br \/>\n<strong>ephemera<\/strong>l (adjective) &#8211; lasting for a very short time; short-lived<\/p>\n<p>Keep your ears ready for that word, Matt used it in a sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[powerpress] In this episode, we have the show&#8217;s first billionaire guest. We&#8217;re talking about several million US dollars in net worth, equivalent to a few billion Philippine pesos. So yeah, he qualifies as a billionaire in the Philippines. Matt Mullenweg is best known as the co-creator of WordPress, which is the godfather of blogging platforms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,13,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funegosyo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}