1. Nathaniel Dourif Friedman was born on 6 August 1977 and is an American technology executive and investor.
14 Facts About Nat Friedman
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Nat Friedman was the chief executive officer of GitHub and former chairman of the GNOME Foundation.
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Nat Friedman attended and graduated from St Anne's-Belfield School in 1996.
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In 1996, while a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nat Friedman befriended Miguel de Icaza on LinuxNet, the IRC network that Nat Friedman had created to discuss Linux.
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In 1999, Friedman co-founded Ximian with de Icaza to develop applications and infrastructure for GNOME, the project de Icaza had started with the aim of producing a free software desktop environment.
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At Novell, Nat Friedman was the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Open Source until January 2010.
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Nat Friedman was created to offer commercial support for Mono, a project that de Icaza had initiated at Ximian to provide a free software implementation of Microsoft's.
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Nat Friedman assumed the role of CEO on October 29,2018.
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Nat Friedman acquired six companies including NPM, Semmle, Dependabot, and PullPanda.
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Nat Friedman helped grow GitHub to an estimated value of $16.5 billion, more than double what Microsoft paid for GitHub in 2018.
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In November 2021, Nat Friedman announced that he was stepping down as CEO.
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Nat Friedman co-founded California YIMBY in 2017 to address California's housing shortage.
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Alongside Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman has made significant investments in the AI space through a fund called C2 Investments, as well as running an AI grant program that gives funding and Microsoft Azure credits.
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Nat Friedman has been married to Stephanie Friedman since 2009.