Matt Mullenweg: Daily Routine

Matt Mullenweg reads first thing, uses the Pomodoro technique, and leads a remote team from anywhere.

If you ever wondered how Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress (which is now powering 30% of websites online), built his company, well, here’s your answer. He took naps. Lots of naps.

In a 2018 interview with Tim Ferriss, Mullenweg spoke about how he used the Uberman sleep cycle (also known as Polyphasic sleep) while writing WordPress. “So it’s four hours on, and then 20 or 30 minutes of sleep,” Mullenweg explained to Ferriss. “This was probably one of the most productive periods of my life.”