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Nat Friedman

GitHub
San Francisco, United States
Nat Friedman served as CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021, following the company's $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. He had previously co-founded Xamarin, acquired by Microsoft. At GitHub, Friedman launched Copilot, the AI coding assistant, transforming GitHub into an AI-native developer platform. After leaving GitHub, he co-founded AI Grant and has been a prolific seed investor and AI researcher, contributing to open-source LLM work.
Developer Tools / Open Source

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GitHub is the world's leading code hosting and collaboration platform, used by over 100 million developers. Offers version control, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Copilot AI coding assistance.

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