Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg earns my admiration in a way few tech founders do, because his biggest gift was given away. Co-creating WordPress, the open-source software that now runs an enormous share of the web, and then building Automattic around it, he chose to widen the infrastructure rather than wall it off. I like that he is also a musician and blogger; that range reads to me as genuine curiosity rather than a resume. The Heinz Award fits a builder who cares about the commons. He works at the foundation level, the part nobody sees, and quietly keeps a large slice of the internet standing.

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Name (English)

Matt Mullenweg

Name (Japanese)

マット・マレンウェッグ

Reading

まっと・まれんうぇっぐ

Born

January 11, 1984 (age 42)

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Occupation

entrepreneur / programmer / computer scientist / musician / blogger

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

High school

High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

University

University of Houston

Awards & achievements

• 2016 Heinz Award

• Official sitehttps://ma.tt/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/photomatt/
• Xhttps://x.com/photomatt
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Mullenweg
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92877

Tags

• Texas
• entrepreneur
• programmer
• computer scientist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.