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.
Nat Friedman @natfriedman
Vesuvius Challenge has been quietly making a lot of progress; we read a full scroll, developed a new unwrapping algorithm with a global spiral prior, and we just launched a new $1M grand prize for reading one of the scrolls we've scanned. There are also 10 $50k prizes available https://t.co/pUgqoqGXYC
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Nat Friedman @natfriedman
Started work at Meta this week. My job is to make amazing AI products that billions of people love to use. It won't happen overnight, but a few days in, I'm feeling confident that great things are ahead.
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Nat Friedman @natfriedman
Civilization is constant maintenance
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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 (nΓ©e 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.
From Nat's own website β common ground for a warm intro.
Experience
- MetaAI Productscurrent2025 β present
- Self-employedInvestor2021 β 2025
- GitHubChairman Emeritus2021 β 2022
- GitHubCEO2018 β 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- MicrosoftCorporate Vice President, Developer Services2016 β 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- XamarinCEO and Cofounder2011 β 2016San Francisco
- NovellChief Technology Officer, Open Source2003 β 2009
- GNOME FoundationCofounder, Chairman2000 β 2003
- XimianCofounder, CEO1999 β 2003
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Mathematics1995 β 1999
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science, Computer Science1995 β 1999
Skills & more
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Software DevelopmentCloud ComputingSoftware EngineeringStart-upsAgile MethodologiesProduct ManagementWeb ApplicationsWeb ServicesEntrepreneurshipUser ExperienceStartupsStrategic PartnershipsFrom Nat's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology1,288
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Shared employers
Also worked at Meta282
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Also worked at GitHub24
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Also worked at Microsoft1,056
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Investments
Investor
Character Technologies Inc.MidjourneyPerplexity AI Inc.Stripe Inc.Weights and Biases Inc.
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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
Network5
Investors connected to Nat in public investor directories β a warm-intro map.