Matt Mullenweg is Mr. Wordpress. He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress . WordPress.com hosts 2.2 million blogs and is making a name for itself withing the old media publishing world as many media companies are looking limit the amount of infrastructure development, including CNN, Fortune and Fox. Matt Mullenweg’s company Automattic has raised $29.5 million Series B funding. According to Matt Mullenweg, the money will expand the team’s engineering department to continually enhance the infrastructure and also to improve the company’s Askimet blog spam prevention service. Askimet saves us from thousands of lame spam comments each and every month.

Me and My wife with Matt Mullenweg