Nat Friedman

Nat Friedman is a serial founder, investor, and tech executive best known for co-founding Xamarin and serving as CEO of GitHub, where he launched Copilot. After leaving GitHub in 2021, he co-founded NFDG, a $1.1B AI venture fund with Daniel Gross, launched the Vesuvius Challenge to decode ancient scrolls using machine learning, and joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs as VP of Product and Applied Research in 2025.