Matt Mullenweg

Board Member

Field Effect

Oct 2022 - Current (3 years 11 months)

Field Effect is an incredible company of former three-letter agency cybersecurity folks now working to provide protection for small businesses and enterprises.

Board Observer

GitLab Inc

May 2019 - Jun 2021 (2 years 2 months)

Was very exciting to join the board of this fully distributed and remote-first company, and see them through their IPO NASDAQ:GTLB. I learned a ton from Sid Sijbrandij and Gitlab, and the company continues to inspire me. They epitomize transparency, directness, distributed, and remote culture.

Board Member

New Museum of Contemporary Art

Feb 2019 - Jun 2024 (5 years 5 months)

Board Member

GitLab Inc

Oct 2017 - Apr 2019 (1 year 7 months)

Board Member

ecoAmerica

Jan 2017 - Current (9 years 8 months)

ecoAmerica is a non-profit building climate leadership, public support, and political will for climate solutions in the United States.

CEO

Automattic Inc

Jan 2014 - Current (12 years 8 months)

Automattic was created to democratize publishing, commerce, and messaging. It's structured as a holding company inspired by LVMH, Berkshire Hathaway, and Constellation, with Maison heads for each product and four main revenue lines: consumer subscriptions, enterprise, e-commerce services, and advertising. We're behind brands you know like WordPress.com, Beeper, Tumblr, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Longreads, Simplenote, Pocket Casts, Day One, Atavist...

Board Member

Grist

Jun 2010 - Sep 2021 (11 years 4 months)

Non-profit dedicated to environmental journalism, published using WordPress at Grist.org.

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Principal

Audrey Capital

Sep 2008 - Current (18 years)

Angel investment and research company, a way for me to pay it forward the warm entrepreneurial help and guidance I received when I moved to San Francisco. 100+ investments, including successful exits in SendGrid, Ring, Blue Bottle Coffee, SmartThings, Typekit, August, Hipmunk, Divide, Makerbot, Gitlab; some fun ongoing companies with Calm, Elysium, Stellar, AngelList, Gusto, Over, Hint Water, Memrise, Getaround, Zero, Brilliant, StyleSeat, Stripe, SpaceX, Syng, and Wealthfront.

Founder / President

Automattic Inc

Nov 2005 - Jan 2014 (8 years 3 months)

Shortly after Automattic was founded Toni Schneider joined as CEO, and over the next eight years I learned a tremendous amount from his leadership. He passed torch of the CEO role to me a few days after my thirtieth birthday.

Senior Product Manager

CNET Networks

Nov 2004 - Oct 2005 (1 year)

Open Source and new product development.

Co-founder, Lead Developer

WordPress

Apr 2003 - Current (23 years 5 months)

Started as a simple open source blogging platform, at the beginning of 2022 WordPress powers over 43% of the top websites in the world. My roles with WordPress have spanned development, support, design, systems, event planning, janitorial, and public advocacy — thankfully, the community now includes people far better than me at all those tasks.

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