Episode 096: Important People with Blogs and Computers

Episode 096 originally broadcast on April 07, 2007

School of Business for April 7, 2007

Quote of the Week, This Week in Business History, The PKF Entrepreneur's Playbook, Navigating Business Jargon, and Dumbest Moments.

Matt Mullenweg of WordPress

The founding developer of WordPress, the Open Source application that is credited with lighting up the Web 2.0 world of blogging, Matt Mullenweg. Hear how this 23 year old "open thinking" entrepreneur so significantly affected community computing that PC World Magazine recently ranked him the 16th most important person on the web, ahead of the founders of Yahoo, and Tim Berner’s Lee who founded the Internet. Listen to his interview with Kelsey Ruger, BusinessMakers Interactive Director, and Erica O'Grady, BusinessMakers contributor.

Flashback - Rod Canion

We flashback to June of 2005, when we had as our guest the entrepreneur who holds the all time record in American business start-ups for the highest first year revenue, over $100M, the co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Compaq Computers, Rod Canion.