Nat Friedman (Developer Tools / Open Source) at 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.