Matt Mullenweg
- CEO at automatic.chat
- Founder & CEO at Automattic
GetLatka interview
How Automattic Reached Nine-Figure ARR with 650 People Across 62 Countries (Interview with Founder & CEO Matt Mullenweg)
Matt Mullenweg (Founder & CEO of Automattic) spoke to Nathan Latka.
Automattic figures from the interview
- ARR (2017)
- Nine figures
- Total Raised incl. Secondary (2017)
- About $350M
- Team Size (2017)
- 650 people
- Countries (2017)
- 62
- Year Founded
- 2005
“So think of WordPress as an open source project and software that people can run anywhere in the world. And Automattic both provides some WordPress services and contributes a lot to the project. So they're separate but closely related. I think where people get confused is a lot of the same people are behind each, including myself.”
“I think the thing that we are saying publicly is that we're into the 9 figures. ... I can say less than 1,000,000,000.”
“I think total at this point raised around, say around 200 in primary and about another 150 in secondary. So somewhere around $350,000,000 total.”
Bio
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress and the founder and, since 2014, the CEO of Automattic. Additionally, Matt runs Audrey Capital, an investment and research company. He has been recognized for his leadership and success by Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Fortune, among other publications. Matt is originally from Houston, Texas, where he attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and studied jazz saxophone. In his spare time, Matt is an avid photographer, hence the username "photomatt." Matt has been on the board since 2005.