Chris Wanstrath
Co-founder and CEO, GitHub
The place the world’s open source moved to
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Co-founded GitHub in 2008 and was CEO through the period when it became the default home of open source, largely by making the pull request a social object rather than a mailing-list patch. The company was bootstrapped for four years, ran on a famously flat structure that later came apart, and sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018.
Curator’s note
Turned reviewing a patch into something people do for fun.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Chris Wanstrath by Idawholou, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Chris Wanstrath en.wikipedia.org
- 02GitHub en.wikipedia.org
- 03Electron en.wikipedia.org