How Far Behind Is Matt Mullenweg in Resume Reviews Now?

Matt Mullenweg has been named one of PC World'due south Acme 50 People on the Spider web, Inc.com'south xxx under thirty, and Business Week'south 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

In this episode, I effort to get him drunk on tequila and brand him expletive.

Matt is most associated with a tool that powers more than 22% of the entire web: WordPress. Even if you aren't into tech, there are many pages of "holy shit!" tips and resources in this episode.

Matt is a phenom of hyper-productivity and does A LOT with very little. But how? This conversation shares his best tools and tricks. From polyphasic slumber to Dvorak and looping music for menses, there's something for everyone.

Final but not least, Matt is also the CEO of Automattic, which is valued at $1-billion+ and has a fully distributed team of 300+ employees around the earth. I'thou honored to be an advisor, and I've seen how they apply incredibly unorthodox methods for jaw-dropping results.

Merely… he started off as a BBQ-chomping Texas boy with no aspirations of empire building. How on earth did go here? Just heed and find out. It's one hell of a story.

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Ep 61: The Benevolent Dictator of the Internet, Matt Mullenweg

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Selected Links from the Episode

• Follow Matt on Spotify, where he shares music
• Acquire more than about GPL
• History of the Peloponnesian War past Thucydides
• Acquire more than about Automattic.com
• Fall in dear with Dvorak – DVzine
• Learn about an even more efficient keyboard: Colemak
• Acquire most Automattic'south P2Theme.com, used to supersede email
• Learn more about Slack for replacing Skype
• Casa Dragones – Our favorite sipping tequila
• Momentum – A Chrome extension to heighten focus
• WunderList – Useful to-do list
• Telegram.org – A fast, free, encrypted messaging app
• The 7-Minute Conditioning – Simplifying exercise goals
• Calm – Meditation App
• Bikeshed.org – An essay
• Learn about Mullenweg'south investors Tiger Global | Insights | Truthful Ventures
• Stolen Trip the light fantastic past Milky Adventure
• Cheque out Matt's blog and his post on Sam Smith
• Who Says by John Mayer
• Gorgeous and Ability past Kanye West
• Rigamortis past Kendrick Lamar
• Matt'southward EDM working music suggestions, Jane Doze
• Though applications take ended, encounter my post seeking a managing editor for hiring ideas
• Hire by Audition | The CEO of Automattic on Holding "Auditions" to Build a Strong Squad by Matt Mullenweg on Harvard Business Review
• The Yr Without Pants by Scott Berkun
• How Proust Tin can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
• The Constructive Executive by Peter Drucker
• Words That Work by Frank Luntz
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff
• Difficult-Boiled Wonderland and the Cease of the World past Haruki Murakami
• The Magus by John Fowles
• Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
• Learn more than about Pose Running and Dr. Romanov
• Connect with Matt on Twitter
• Matt recommends Tom Ford suits
• Learn more nearly GigaOM.com
• Read about what is in the carry-on bag of Matt Mullenweg
• The Halo Result by Phil Rosenzweig
• The Everything Shop by Brad Stone
• Acquire more than about Wealthfront
• The Black Swan, Fooled By Randomness, Book of Aphorisms and Anti-Frail past Nassim Taleb
• Read Warren Buffett's Annual Letters
• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Ernest Hemingway on Writing past Larry Phillips
• Learn more about TechMeme.com – "The Best Tech Newspaper in the World"
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker
• The Fine art of the Commencement past Guy Kawasaki
• The Hard Affair About Difficult Things by Ben Horowitz
• Cypher to 1 by Peter Thiel (As well read Original Grade Notes past Blake Masters)
• The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman
• OK Computer past Radiohead
• Nostalgia Ultra by Frank Ocean
• Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins

Show Notes

• How WordPress started | The origin story
• Defining "open source"
• How WordPress vanquish their competition and how to crush thecomplicate-to-turn a profit business model
• The long term outlook and core product characteristics that has empowered the growth of WordPress
• Describing Automattic, and how it was founded with a purpose to kill spam
• Experiments in polyphasic sleep, girlfriend complexities, and Dvorak typing
• How is Automattic differs from the boilerplate tech startup, and challenges of a distributed workforce
• Thoughts on where to depict the transparency line when running an open up-source company
• Delving into the secret benefits of tequila
• Matt Mullenweg's useful laptop and smartphone apps
• Turning it around on Tim: Intermittent fasting and distilled water fasting?
• Overworking vices, creating "de-loading" phases and saying "no" to meetings
• Why we don't care almost the color of the bike shed
• Musical skills that back up coding and other leadership skills
• Why Matt listens to familiar songs on loop when working
• Hiring tips: Auditions at Automattic, why utilise them, and how they work
• Matt'southward view on elevation-grading
• Most gifted books
• Learning to beloved running
• Answering Twitter questions: Bootstrapping vs. seed money if starting in 2015, picking a badass conform and terminal slap-up purchase for less than $100
• Packing tips
• The story of losing an investor's check (nearly a $400,000 error)
• The story behind eating 104 Chicken McNuggets
• First person to come to mind when you recollect "successful"?
• Suggested investing books
• The function WordPress will play in online content outside the browser (mobile apps, API, etc.) in the near future
• Books and resources for the xx-twelvemonth one-time entrepreneur looking to offset a company
• Stranded on a desert island? Albums and what else?
• Advice for your 20-year one-time self?

People Mentioned

• Thucydides
• Dvorak
• Sam Smith
• Milky Chants
• Dr. Nicholas Romanov
• Chris Sacca
• Om Malik
• Warren Buffett

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