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Speaker 1: In fact, most of the web runs on open source software,

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Speaker 1: free to be you and me dream. I'm Jake Goldstein,

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Speaker 1: and this is what's your problem. My guest today is

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Speaker 1: Matt mullen Wick. In two thousand and three, Matt co

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Speaker 1: So what's WordPress? WordPress is an open source operating system

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Speaker 1: for the web. So what's that mean. It means that

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Speaker 1: Unplug So just force yourself to be bored and sit

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Speaker 1: from distractions. If everything goes well, what problem will you

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Speaker 1: How big is it now? Two thousand? So that's a

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Speaker 1: big leap already. Dan Matt Mullinweg is the co creator

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Speaker 1: of WordPress and the founder of Automatic. Today's show was

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Speaker 1: produced by Edith Russelo, edited by Robert Smith, and engineered

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Speaker 1: by Amanda ka Wong. I'm Jacob Woldstin, and I would

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Speaker 1: think we should book? Please really please email us at

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