Matt Mullenweg turned his early passion for blogging into a flourishing business and an unshakeable idea: that users should be able to share and tweak the code that powers their websites, and that most of those tools should be free to use. As far back as college, Matt was collaborating with far-flung fellow-coders to make blogging less clunky and more elegan ... Show More
Yesterday
Advice Line with Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker
Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal joins Guy on the Advice Line, where they answer questions from three early-stage entrepreneurs. Plus, how AI integrations with glasses are helping us see the world in a whole new way.First we meet Kimber in Utah, who wants to take her chewa ... Show More
45m 44s
Apr 2023
Matt Mullenweg: WordPress, AI, and jazz
Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-ai-and-jazz Matt Mullenweg started out as a jazz saxophonist, and went on to create WordPress, which is the platform behind an astonishing 42% of the websites in the world. We chat with Matt about his journey ... Show More
1h 5m
Jun 2023
Growth Mindset: Navigating the Path to Entrepreneurial Success with Matt Mullenweg
<p>On this week’s episode, WHOOP Founder and CEO Will Ahmed is joined by Matt Mullenweg the founder and developer of WordPress, the web platform powering over 40% of the sites on the internet. As the founder and CEO of Automattic, Matt is working to democratize publishing and com ... Show More
48m 9s
Jul 2014
SPI 117: Broke on a Friend’s Couch to Successful Entrepreneur with Dwight Peters of BackersHub
#117: Today’s guest on the podcast, Dwight Peters, had started a number of different businesses that didn’t go according to plan, which eventually led him to going broke and having to stay on his friend’s couch while he figured out his next move. His perseverance paid off, howeve ... Show More
29m 14s
Aug 2020
143. You Need More Money by Matt Manero
Matt launched his first company, Commercial Fleet Financing, Inc. (CFF), in 1995 with a phone, a folding table and the unyielding confidence of a single client, a trucker. Fast forward 25 years and CFF has funded over $1 billion in transportation equipment with annual business of ... Show More
45 m
Feb 2024
B2B content marketing secrets
<p>Paul Slack, CEO and Founder of Vende Digital, explores B2B demand generation. Engaging in content marketing with the goal of more traffic and sales often results in content your potential customers don’t care about. However, when you start with the customer and focus on becomi ... Show More
14m 10s
Nov 2021
S5 Bonus: Oleg Friedman, Verb Data
Oleg Fridman has been at this startup thing for a while. Most of his career, he has been working for himself, remotely. In High School, he was drug into entrepreneurship by a few of his buddies, creating an e-commerce website in 2002 for selling furniture. They figured out that t ... Show More
30m 24s
Oct 2021
Rapid Response: Launching a $500b startup, w/Jet.com's Marc Lore
<p>Since stepping down as Walmart’s president of e-commerce at the beginning of the year, billionaire entrepreneur Marc Lore has had a busy year of big ideas. In the spring, it was announced that he reached a deal to purchase the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA’s Minnes ... Show More
22m 22s
