WordPress, which is now managed by The WordPress Foundation. In late 2005, he founded Automattic, the business behind WordPress.com and Akismet, which provides free WordPress blogs and other services. He writes the blog. ma.tt, a domain hack. Since quitting his job at CNET, he has devoted most of his time to developing open source projects. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including Canada's Northern Voice and the WordCamp events organized around WordPress software.
Mullenweg attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts where he studied jazz saxophone.[3] Mullenweg is also a Dvorak Keyboard user.
Career In June 2002 Mullenweg started using the b2/cafelog blogging software to complement the photos he was taking on a trip to Washington D.C. after participating in the National Fed Challenge competition. He contributed some minor code regarding typographic entities and cleaner permalinks.
Several months after development of b2 had stopped, in January 2003, he announced on his blog his plan of forking the software to bring it up to date with web standards and his needs. He was quickly contacted by Mike Little and together they started WordPress from the b2 codebase. They were soon joined by original b2 developer Michel Valdrighi. Mullenweg was only nineteen years old, and a freshman (studying philosophy and political science) at the University of Houston at the time.
