Online social media entrepreneur Mathew Charles Mullenweg is best known as the founding developer of Word-Press. As some of you might know, it is open source software meant for blogging and web content management, used by millions across the world.
Born on January 11th, 1984, Matt, as he is famously called, studied at the University of Houston, majoring in political science. Before completing his degree, he left college, and started working for CNET Networks, a media website.
In January, 2003 Mullenweg along with Mike Little, released on Word-Press which grew to become the easiest, and the most popular website management system on the web. The software is managed by the Word-Press Foundation.
Other than technological innovation, Mullenweg is also involved in charitable programmes.