Nat Friedman

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Nat Friedman

Nathaniel Dourif "Nat" Friedman (born August 6, 1977 ) is an American programmer , he was co-founder and CEO of Ximian (1999-2001), CEO of Xamarin (2011-2016) and has been CEO of GitHub since 2018 .

Life

1999 got Friedman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the Bachelor -degree both in computer science and in mathematics awarded.

After working on the GNU ROPE project , he founded the company Ximian together with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, and was its CEO from 1999 to 2001. After the company received fifteen million dollars in venture capital , David Patrick was appointed as external CEO. In 2003, Ximian was bought by Novell .

As of May 2011, Friedman was CEO of Xamarin , a company he and Miguel de Icaza founded. Xamarin was bought by Microsoft in 2016, after which Friedman worked as an employee at Microsoft.

In June 2018, Microsoft announced the acquisition of GitHub and, upon completion of the acquisition in October 2018, made Friedman CEO of GitHub.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Baader: Ximian secures 30 million, other Linux companies have problems , Pro-Linux, January 18, 2001
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nat.org
  3. ↑ Calldeck for a discussion with investors on the takeover of GiHub by Microsoft . Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  4. ↑ natfriedman: Pull request successfully merged. Starting build… In: The GitHub Blog . October 26, 2018 ( github.com [accessed October 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Friedman, Nat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedman, Nathaniel Dourif
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American software developer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1977