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Chris Wanstrath (born March 13, 1985) is an American technology entrepreneur and programmer. He is the founder of Null Games, and the co-founder and former CEO of GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. Wanstrath co-founded GitHub in 2008 and sold it to Microsoft in 2018.
Chris Wanstrath; GitHub Co-Founder and former CEO; Publishing fine indie games at Null
The GitHub service was developed by Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, and Scott Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008. The company, GitHub, Inc., has existed as of 2007 and is located in San Francisco.
Learn about Chris Wanstrath, the cofounder of software development platform GitHub, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018. See his net worth, age, education, marital status and more.
Sep 14, 2016 · Chris Wanstrath is the co-founder and CEO of GitHub, a platform for software development and collaboration. Read his posts about GitHub's vision, products, community, diversity, and more.
Jun 4, 2018 · Learn how Chris Wanstrath dropped out of college, taught himself programming, and launched GitHub, the online platform for software developers. Find out how he became a billionaire after Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.
In just five years since launching GitHub.com (a site that claims to be “the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers”), 27-year-old Wanstrath, a former University of Cincinnati student, has seen a simple idea grow into perhaps the most powerful software-development tool on the planet.
