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All things Wordpress aside, I have always had a bit of admiration for Matt Mullenweg. From afar, he seems like a principled person that has worked hard at building community while keeping humility. I am extrapolating of course, as I've never met him in real life, but he is one of the few tech leaders I've actually looked up to over the years.

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I met Matt several times in the 2005-2008 time frame. He impressed me as a low key guy committed to playing a long game by providing value to his customers, partners, and employees. He strikes me as principled and acting with integrity. Meeting him was one of the key reasons we adopted WordPress in 2006 as the platform for our websites.

Gutenberg can still be an error in judgement his part and as a key element of WordPress strategy.

I can have enormous respect for his business ethics and still think in one aspect of his business he has made a mistake.

I feel the same, and had it corroborated when I chatted with him briefly at a WP meetup some years ago. Just a very warm, practical, unpretentious person.

I've met him briefly at after a talk he gave and had the same impression.

I too have always been a fan of Matt.

One of the few in US tech that got bigger and bigger with projects and did not go into full censorship mode to court more money.

Very admirable indeed.

Matt is a cool guy. Generous and principled.

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