Chris Wanstrath

Chris Wanstrath
Wanstrath in 2023
Born (1985-03-13) March 13, 1985 (age 39)
Ohio, US
Known forCo-founder and former CEO of GitHub

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. Before starting GitHub, he worked with CNET on GameSpot and Chowhound. In addition to GitHub, he created the Atom text editor, Ruby's Resque job queue, the Mustache templating language, and the pjax JavaScript library.[1] According to Forbes his net worth is estimated at US$1.8-2.2 billion[2] and is listed in America's richest entrepreneurs under 40,[3] as well as Fortune's 40 under 40[4] and he was named in CNBC's Disruptor 50 list.[5]

  1. ^ Metz, Cade. "GitHub Atom's Code-Editor Nerds Take Over Their Universe". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
  2. ^ "The 28 youngest billionaires in tech, from Stripe's founders to the owner of TikTok". Business Insider. March 14, 2020. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  3. ^ "Forbes Profile - Chris Wanstrath". Forbes.
  4. ^ "Fortune : 40 Under 40".
  5. ^ "CNBC Disruptor 50 – Chris Wanstrath". CNBC. May 12, 2015.