Valleywag
The "life change" Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg Twittered about? Not, as we suspected, a big-ticket purchase funded by his company's recent $29.5 million financing round, some of which reportedly went into the founder's pockets. Instead, he tells Valleywag, it was the purchase of ma.tt, his new domain name. Buying a .tt domain, based in Trinidad and Tobago, costs foreign registrants $500 a year, and requires an international wire transfer. Only in Silicon Valley would the purchase of a domain name be considered a "life change." I've learned my lesson: Mullenweg is far too boring to gossip about.
Automattic founder proves exasperatingly boring
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3:41 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Owen Thomas
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YOU DOGG I HEARD U LIKE BORING STORIES SO WE PUT OWEN THOMAS RIGHT HERE IN YOUR DASHBOARD!!
I just type "matt" into google and hit the lucky button. He could've saved the five hundred bucks.
Have you read his blog? His life is not exactly a cavalcade of hedonistic indulgences. I think he's going to spend his money on barbeque.
bbq is good.
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