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About
Nat Friedman co-founded Xamarin and served as CEO of GitHub, where he oversaw the launch of Copilot. With Daniel Gross he ran the venture fund NFDG and the AI Grant program, backing startups including Perplexity and Safe Superintelligence, before Meta recruited the pair in mid-2025 to help lead Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he heads AI products.
Beyond investing
- Founded
- Friedman co-founded California YIMBY in 2017 to address California's housing shortage. Friedman created nat.dev in 2023, a web interface for popular large language models.
- Education
- Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, 1999) Studied at St. Anne's-Belfield School (1995)
- Boards
- Friedman is a board member at the Arc Institute. Friedman is a former chairman of the GNOME Foundation.
- Family
- Friedman has been married to Stephanie Friedman (née Schatz) since 2009 and they have a daughter.
- More
- Friedman created and hosted a podcast called Hacker Medley with Alex Graveley. Friedman is an advisor of Midjourney. As a freshman at MIT, Friedman created LinuxNet, an IRC network to discuss Linux.
Mentioned above: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology mafia →
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Experience
- MetaAI Productscurrent2025 — present
- Self-employedInvestor2021 — 2025
- GitHubChairman Emeritus2021 — 2022
- GitHubCEO2018 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- MicrosoftCorporate Vice President, Developer Services2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- XamarinCEO and Cofounder2011 — 2016San Francisco
- NovellChief Technology Officer, Open Source2003 — 2009
- GNOME FoundationCofounder, Chairman2000 — 2003
- XimianCofounder, CEO1999 — 2003
Skills & more
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Investments
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8FlowAccordAgency AiAirplaneAkoolAltAntimetalAnysphere (Cursor)Artificial Intelligence Underwriting CompanyAssembly AIAtomic AIAxiomBasisBuck StashBuildshipCapsuleCharacter Technologies Inc.Character.AIChordioChromaCoframeCompositeConsensusConvexCoreWeaveCreatify AIDaggerDailyDayDreamDeelDigitsDistributed SpectrumDistylDopplerEcho LabsElevenLabsEmployment HeroEntrepreneur FirstEspresso AIEvolutionaryScaleFilloutFimioFloydHubGeorgette PackagingGlide AppsGrafbaseGranolaGrid StatusHomesteadHubbleHumanoidHume AIJulius AIKeen TechnologiesKiteKlarityLogseqMagicMathpixMaticMatXMedallionMedra AIMidjourneyMUXNeonNewLimitOutfitPerplexityPerplexity AI Inc.PikaPincitesPolyworkPortola PharmaceuticalsPrefectPulleyPulseRain IndustriesRecraftReka AIRetoolReworkdRookoutRowyRunpodRunscopeSafe SuperintelligenceScaleScale AIShellworksSilurianSocketSpice AIStrange Loop LabsStrapiStripe Inc.SumbleSunosync.labsTerraform IndustriesThe Bot CompanyThereCraftTinybirdTransformTraversalTupeloTurntableValueBaseVercelViktorVisorWeights & BiasesWeights and Biases Inc.WithinWorkOSXBOWXwingZeta LabsZoo
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Podcasts & interviews
featuring Nat FriedmanNat Friedman | First Ones | AI Investor Nat Friedman's First Investment Was Disney Stock
Techmeme Ride Home Podcast
What Nat Friedman Looks For In AI Founders
Tech Brew Ride Home Podcast
Nat Friedman (Github CEO) - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
Dwarkesh Patel
Colleagues at AI Grant
Network4
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nat Friedman?
- Nat Friedman co-founded Xamarin and served as CEO of GitHub, where he oversaw the launch of Copilot. With Daniel Gross he ran the venture fund NFDG and the AI Grant program, backing startups including Perplexity and Safe Superintelligence, before Meta recruited the pair in mid-2025 to help lead Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he heads AI products.
- Where does Nat Friedman work?
- Nat Friedman is at AI Grant.
- What companies has Nat Friedman invested in?
- Investments tracked here include 8Flow, Accord, Agency Ai, Airplane, Akool, Alt, Antimetal, Anysphere (Cursor), Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, Assembly AI, Atomic AI, Axiom, and 107 more.
- Where did Nat Friedman go to school?
- Nat Friedman studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science, Mathematics); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science).
- What podcasts and interviews feature Nat Friedman?
- Tracked appearances include "Nat Friedman | First Ones | AI Investor Nat Friedman's First Investment Was Disney Stock", "What Nat Friedman Looks For In AI Founders", "Nat Friedman (Github CEO) - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI".
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Meta mafia326
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GitHub mafia30
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