Relentless focus, that drives growth
It can be difficult to stay focused on what matters to your business, day in and day out.
You get distracted by ideas that you could pursue, or by what other firms are doing.
Matt Mullenweg isn’t like that. He is different because he found the secret behind ‘focus’.
And, as a result, he went from being a typical college dropout in Houston to the founder of Automattic, a billion-dollar software firm in San Francisco, in just a few short years.
You see, Matt, created WordPress – the free and open-source content management system, now used by over 60 million websites.
If creating such an internet phenomenon wasn’t impressive enough… Mullenweg was only 20 years old when WordPress was first published! He laid his groundwork straight out of school when he volunteered to code for B2.
Their main developer upped and left one day, and Mullenweg stepped in to fill the void. Everything spiralled up from there!
Now, 99.9% of us would be extremely proud to have built a platform utilised by millions around the world. But Mullenweg doesn’t let himself become complacent.
He describes becoming fascinated with the others who are not his users yet and obsessing over getting them to test out his platform. He lives by the code that however good you are, there is always the opportunity for improvement.
Mullenweg describes how he eats, sleeps, and breathes WordPress. It’s not something he built; it’s almost a part of who he is, and he couldn’t work on anything else.
That’s why he feels it’s so important to pursue something aligned with your core values – the contributions you want to make to the world. The secret of focus is to truly ‘be’, whatever it is that you ‘do’.
To show our respect for Mullenweg’s motivational ideas, we bring you some top quotes on his success and motivation in business.
“I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the goodwill outweigh the bad.”
“The biggest motivation is not the money but the impact.”
“Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result, the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.”
“Do what you love and don’t focus on money – life’s too short.”
“Simplicity not simplistic.”
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