It was only a few years ago that Matt Mullenweg started fiddling about with Wordpress, the popular open source blogging platform, from his bedroom in Houston.
Now, according to Om Malik, his company Automattic has raised $29.5m in series B funding from a number of investors - including the New York Times.
On his blog, Mullenweg says that this is act two for the business: "Automattic is now positioned to execute on our vision of a better web not just in blogging, but expanding our investment in anti-spam, identity, wikis, forums, and more -- small, open source pieces, loosely joined with the same approach and philosophy that has brought us this far."
We interviewed him a couple of months ago, but it's worth pointing out again that one of the remarkable things is how well Matt and his team have executed an open source business. Plus, he's still very young: sure, Mark Zuckerberg gets a lot of press for producing Facebook while still so fresh-faced, but while in was in San Francisco for Macworld I popped along to Mullenweg's birthday party - he's only just turned 24.
