Name
Tom Preston-Werner
Tom Preston-Werner
San Francisco, California
Drop Out, Harvey Mudd College
United States
collaborative software, Self Made
$1,600,000,000
1818
#1818 Billionaires 2019
#36 America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 2016
Tom Preston-Werner cofounded software development platform GitHub in 2008. Microsoft bought the company for $7.5 billion in 2018.Preston-Werner had left the firm in 2014 in the wake of harassment allegations, which he denied. Following an investigation, GitHub said it did not find evidence of harassment, but that it "did find evidence of mistakes and errors of judgment."He cofounded language learning platform Chatterbug in 2016.
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