I was offered $200M at 24 and I turned it down

All right, today's episode is special. We've got Matt Moloweg. Matt founded a company called WordPress, which is used by something like 45% of all websites on the internet. So it's just a huge thing. And we talked to Matt about a bunch of interesting things. Sean, what did we talk to him about? He had an offer to sell his company for$200 million when he was 24 years old. He turned it down. We asked him what that was like. We talked to him about Some of the recent drama that they've had. We talked about how they've been acquiring companies. They bought the small company in South Africa and how it turned out to be. a huge thing for their business, like a you know, a billion dollar plus win. And he's just a student of the game. He's been doing it for like twenty years. This guy started this company when he was nineteen years old.

and is still doing it and it's become this absolute juggernaut. So enjoy this episode with Matt Mullingway. It's travel never looking back Tell me if this is right. almost too good to be true, but I had read that in two thousand eight you had an acquisition offer. I think you were only twenty four years old for two hundred million dollars. At that point, I think you'd only raised a million dollars. And I think you raised a million dollars at three million in valuation. Something like relatively You're twenty four, you're gonna be worth nine figures, something crazy like that.

You turn it down. But then you talk about how you didn't have control of the company because you were young and maybe just like made some mistakes with funding and something like that. what's the conversation like with yourself when you're like I'm turning down something that might make me worth over a hundred million dollars at the age of twenty four.

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