It's always a pleasure to talk to WordPress (http://techcrunch.com/www.crunchbase.com/company/wordpress) founder Matt Mullenweg (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/matt-mullenweg), as he's one of the more interesting and friendly people in the upper echelons of the tech founder sphere. So we took a few minutes to meet up with him this weekend while he was in Austin for the South By Southwest (http://techcrunch.com/events/sxsw-2013/) conference. He's a native Texan, so it was fun to meet in his home state.
And there was quite a bit to talk about. Mullenweg has some pretty informed opinions on the recent hot topic of remote working (http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/27/mayers-means/), as 130 of the 150 people who work for Automattic (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/automattic) (WordPress.com (http://www.wordpress.com)'s parent company) work remotely from outside of the company's San Francisco headquarters. And with his growing activity investing both in startups (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/matt-mullenweg) and artistic projects (http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/06/the-bay-lights-creator-leo-villareal-on-where-tech-meets-art-tctv/) along with the continued success (http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/28/wordpress-com-restaurant-toni-schneider-interview/) of WordPress as a publishing platform, there's no shortage of things to discuss.
In the video embedded above, you can watch Mullenweg talk about how in the future every knowledge company could have a distributed work force, WordPress' unique ad-averse revenue strategy, how he balances tech life with his creative interests, Automattic's M&A strategy (http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/wordpress-simperium-simplenote/), and more.
Via: TechCrunch