This young man is the brains and brawn behind the single most popular blogging platform on the planet: <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">WordPress</a>. What's more impressive than accomplishing something this colossall? Well, how about being just <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/01/twenty-five/" target="_blank">25 years old</a>!
Let's highlight some of Matt's accomplishments in his 25 years on the planet:
In 2003:
<ul>
<li> He formed WordPress by forking some code from b2/cafelog.</li>
<li>He co-founded the Global Multimedia Protocols Group.</li>
</ul>
In 2004:
<ul>
<li>He formed Ping-o-Matic with Dougal Campbell.</li>
<li>Was recruited by CNET to work on WordPress for them. He dropped out of College at this point.</li>
<li>He announced bbPress, a forum software similar to WordPress in simplicity.</li>
</ul>
In 2005:
<ul>
<li>Left Cnet and launched Akismet.</li>
<li>WordPress.com became open to the public.</li>
<li>AutoMattic was announced.</li>
</ul>
In 2006:
<ul>
<li> Raised about 1.1 million for AutoMattic in funding.</li>
<li>The first WordPress conference occurred.</li>
<li>named #16 of the 50 Most Important People on the Web by PC World</li>
<li>Acquired Gravatar.</li>
</ul>
There's a ton more of course, such as WordPress.tv recently being launched and the acquisition of PollDaddy amongst others.
For someone who has just recently hit 25.. not a bad list of accomplishments.
We look forward to many more developments.
*date source: wikipedia

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This young man is the brains and brawn behind the single most popular blogging platform on the planet: WordPress. What's more impressive than accomplishing something this colossall? Well, how about being just 25 years old! 
 Let's highlight some of Matt's accomplishments in his 25 years on the planet: 
 In 2003: 
 
 He formed WordPress by forking s...