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b"My guest today is Matt Mullenweg, co-founder and CEO of Automattic, the company on top of the open-source project WordPress that Matt helped start. Today, WordPress powers 40% of all the websites in the world. Our wide-ranging conversation covers the state of the internet when Matt first started WordPress, the symbiotic relationship between open source and proprietary projects, and how the most successful companies are really master world builders. I hope you enjoy this great conversation with Matt Mullenweg.\\n \\xa0\\n For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page here.\\n -----\\n This episode is brought to you by Tegus. Tegus has built the most extensive primary information platform available for investors.\\n With Tegus, you can learn everything you\\u2019d want to know about a company in an on-demand digital platform. Investors share their expert calls, allowing others to instantly access more than 10,000 calls on Affirm, Teladoc, Roblox, or almost any company of interest. All you have to do is log in. Visit tegus.co/patrick to learn more.\\n -----\\n This episode is brought to you by Vanta. Vanta has built software that makes it easier to both get and maintain your SOC 2 report, at a fraction of the normal cost. Founder\\u2019s Field Guide listeners can redeem a $1k off coupon at vanta.com/patrick.\\xa0\\n -----\\n Founder's Field Guide is a property of Colossus Inc. For more episodes of Founder's Field Guide, visit joincolossus.com/episodes.\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\n Stay up to date on all our podcasts by signing up to Colossus Weekly, our quick dive every Sunday highlighting the top business and investing concepts from our podcasts and the best of what we read that week.\\xa0Sign up here.\\n Follow us on Twitter: @patrick_oshag | @JoinColossus\\n \\xa0\\n Show Notes\\n [00:03:15] \\u2013 [First question] \\u2013 What the internet felt like when he first started building Wordpress\\n [00:05:11] \\u2013 What was wrong with his impression of the internet then\\n [00:06:50] \\u2013 Being a connoisseur of things overlooked\\xa0\\n [00:08:34] \\u2013 How permission less publishing and open source software shaped the internet\\n [00:12:30] \\u2013 Balance between centralization and decentralization and where we are in the cycle\\n [00:14:08] \\u2013 The cycle between direct-to-consumer and having intermediary\\n [00:16:32] \\u2013 New opportunities and challenges of the internet today\\n [00:18:49] \\u2013 Potential of cryptocurrency to enable big changes on the internet\\n [00:21:22] \\u2013 The idea of distributed work via the internet and the utopia of it\\n [00:21:38] - Sam Harris podcast with Matt Mullenweg\\n [00:24:31] \\u2013 Advantage of having a team distributed across geographies and timezones\\n [00:26:46] \\u2013 What he learned from the Amazon\\u2019s API mandate\\n [00:29:12] \\u2013 Landmines of distributed work\\n [00:31:13] \\u2013 Interesting lessons learned building Wordpress\\n [00:34:55] \\u2013 Company building as world building\\n [00:35:52] \\u2013 Lessons from Microsoft on platform building\\n [00:38:53] \\u2013 Key ingredient to world building within your company\\n [00:41:09] \\u2013 Lessons from Wix and Shopify\\xa0\\n [00:42:23] \\u2013 How to decide what to do next in resource and capital allocation\\n [00:47:00] \\u2013 How to engage with other stakeholders in a platform business\\n [00:50:06] \\u2013 The continued connectivity created by the internet\\n [00:53:14] \\u2013 Kindest thing anyone has done for him"