Mullenweg announced bbPress in December, Mullenweg and the WordPress team released WordPress 1.5 'Strayhorn' in February 2005, which had over 900,000 downloads. He dropped out of college and moved to San Francisco from Houston, Texas, the following month.

In October 2004, he was recruited by CNET to work on WordPress for them and help them with blogs and new media offerings. The following month, WordPress competitor Movable Type announced a radical price change, driving thousands of users to seek another blogging platform this is widely seen as the tipping point in WordPress's popularity. In April 2004, with fellow WordPress developers, they launched Ping-O-Matic, a hub for notifying or 'pinging' blog search engines, like Technorati, about blog updates. GMPG wrote the first of the Microformats. In March 2004, he co-founded the Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG) with Eric Meyer and Tantek Çelik. Mullenweg was 19 years old, and a freshman at the University of Houston at the time.

They were soon joined by original b2 developer Michel Valdrighi. In January 2003, Mullenweg and Mike Little started WordPress as a fork of b2.

Career Mullenweg at WordCamp Germany 2009 He studied at the University of Houston, majoring in political science, before he dropped out in 2004 to pursue a job at CNET Networks. Mullenweg was born in Houston, Texas, and attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studied jazz saxophone. He is known for developing and founding the free and open-source web software WordPress, and its parent company Automattic.Īfter dropping out of the University of Houston, he worked at CNET Networks from 2004 to 2006 until he quit and founded Automattic, an internet company whose brands include, Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal, and Tumblr. Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO, CBBQTT Automattic

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