Nat Friedman
CEO, GitHub
Running GitHub after Microsoft bought it, and shipping Copilot
Rating
82Impact score
Domains
Developer platformsOpen sourceAI tooling
Scouting report
Co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza, carded in Series One, working on GNOME and Mono, then ran GitHub from 2018 to 2021, the years when the community expected Microsoft to ruin it. Instead private repositories became free, Actions and Codespaces shipped, and the Arctic Code Vault buried a snapshot of open source in a Norwegian mine.
Curator’s note
Took over the thing everyone expected to be spoiled, and it was not.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Nat Friedman by David Sifry, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Nat Friedman en.wikipedia.org
- 02GitHub Copilot en.wikipedia.org
- 03GitHub Archive Program archiveprogram.github.com