Awards & Recognition
★Fast Company '100 Most Creative People in Business' 2012
★Bloomberg Businessweek '50 Most Influential People in Tech' 2013
Notable Facts
→Co-founded GitHub in 2008, sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018
→Created widely-used technologies including Jekyll, TOML, SemVer, and Gravatar
→Previously founded Gravatar (sold to Automattic in 2007) and co-founded Chatterbug
→Resigned from GitHub CEO role in 2014 following harassment investigation
→Billionaire entrepreneur with estimated $1.25 billion from GitHub sale
→Signed The Giving Pledge in 2023 to donate majority of wealth
→Active angel investor in 175+ startups including Stripe, Netlify, Retool
→Currently General Partner at Preston-Werner Ventures, raising $100M fund