My First Million
My First Million
Hubspot Media
I was offered $200M at 24 and I turned it down
45 minutes Posted Jan 31, 2025 at 4:43 pm.
) Turning down $200M at 24
) WordPress's 1000 days of irrelevance
) Turning a small South African company into $3B
) The battle of giants WooCommerce vs Shopify
) Matt's Villain Arc
) Auditions > Interviews
) Putting every employee on the front line
) Matt on Deepseek
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Episode 672: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Matt Mullenweg ( https://x.com/photomatt ), the founder of WordPress and Automattic. 
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