12 Facts About Tom Preston-Werner

Thomas Preston-Werner was born on May 27,1979 and is an American billionaire software developer and entrepreneur.

Tom Preston-Werner is an active contributor within the free and open-source software community, most prominently in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives.

Tom Preston-Werner is best known as the founder and former CEO of GitHub, a Git repository web-based hosting service, which he co-founded in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath and P J Hyett.

Tom Preston-Werner resigned from GitHub in 2014 when an internal investigation concluded that he and his wife harassed an employee.

Tom Preston-Werner's mother was a teacher and his stepfather was an engineer.

Tom Preston-Werner graduated from high school at Dubuque Senior High School and attended Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California for 2 years before dropping out to pursue other endeavours.

Tom Preston-Werner has been featured as a guest on podcasts, including Rubyology and SitePoint.

Tom Preston-Werner continued until the meetings became overwhelmed by venture capital investors searching for talent; this prompted him to seek more private gatherings.

In 2004, Tom Preston-Werner founded Gravatar, a service for providing globally unique avatars that follow users from site to site.

Tom Preston-Werner declined a $300,000 bonus and stock options from Microsoft so that he could focus on GitHub.

In 2010, Tom Preston-Werner read a comment on Twitter insulting the quality of GitHub's search function.

Tom Preston-Werner's wife is a former graduate student in cultural anthropology known for her involvement in historical research and social subjects.