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- Wanstrath’s cofounders Tom Preston-Werner and PJ Hyett will walk away with an estimated $1.25 billion and close to $1 billion, respectively.
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Jun 5, 2018 · Much like Wanstrath, Preston-Werner is a college dropout (he left Harvey Mudd College in 1999 after two years). Preston-Werner had previously founded a digital avatar startup, called Gravatar, that he soldto web developer Automattic in 2007 for an undisclosed amount.
Jun 14, 2018 · Co-founders Tom Preston-Werner will receive $1.25 billion in stock and PJ Hyett will get close to $1 billion. GitHub was founded in 2008 as a means of creating collaboration between software...
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Jun 6, 2018 · As GitHub's largest shareholder, CEO Wanstrath will receive as much as $1.5 billion in stock, while Preston-Werner and Hyett will walk away with around $1.25 billion and close to $1 billion,...
Sep 29, 2015 · Seven years after it was founded by Chris Wanstrath, P.J. Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner in 2008, GitHub is a $2 billion “unicorn”— billion-dollar private company —with $350 million in funding and...
May 28, 2013 · A friend and fellow Ruby on Rails programmer who'd helped formulate the idea, Tom Preston-Werner, put in some money he'd made from selling an online avatar technology called Gravatar, and...
Jun 4, 2018 · I remember the first time I met the GitHub founding team — Chris Wanstrath, Tom Preston-Werner, PJ Hyett, and Scott Chacon — in January 2012. Ostensibly, it was set up for me to convince them to let us invest, but we ended up spending all our time getting to know each and talking about the seemingly unlimited opportunities for GitHub.
