Leader Weekends: How to be a CEO (Tumblr's Matt Mullenweg)

<p>After taking WordPress from a small blogging site in the 2000s to an all-in-one website creation platform, which is now the backbone of around a third of all websites, Matt Mullenweg has now set his sights on social media. Now as CEO of Tumblr, <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/business/tumblr-ceo-matt-mullenweg-on-opensourcing-social-media-b1101975.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt reveals his plans to revamp the site</a>, welcome disillusioned ex-Twitter and Reddit users, and create a social site that is, at its core, open-source. In this episode:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Matt’s battleplan for making Tumblr better</li><li>How social media sites copy features from competitors</li><li>Making Tumblr’s algorithm open-source</li><li>How AI will play a role in improving Tumblr</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href="https://pod.fo/e/1e57b2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to the full interview here.</a></p><br><p>For more news, interviews and analysis <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/business" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">go to standard.co.uk/business.</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>