Tom Preston-Werner
- January 9, 2024
- Software Developer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Tom Preston-Werner |
| Occupation | Software Developer |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 28, 1979(1979-10-28) |
| Age | 45 |
| Birthplace | Dubuque |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Iowa |
| Horoscope | Scorpio |
Tom Preston-Werner Biography
| Name | Tom Preston-Werner |
| Birthday | Oct 28 |
| Birth Year | 1979 |
| Place Of Birth | Dubuque |
| Home Town | Iowa |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
| Spouse | Theresa Werner |
| Children(s) | 3 |
Tom Preston-Werner is one of the most popular and richest Software Developer who was born on October 28, 1979 in Dubuque, Iowa, United States.
In 2004, Preston-Werner founded Gravatar, a service for providing globally unique avatars that follow users from site to site. The company grew to about 32,000 users in 2007, when Preston-Werner sold the company to Automattic. In 2005 he moved to San Francisco to work at Powerset, a natural language search engine. Powerset was acquired by Microsoft. Preston-Werner declined a $300,000 bonus and stock options from Microsoft so that he could focus on GitHub.
Preston-Werner co-founded GitHub in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett and Scott Chacon, as a place to share and collaborate on code.
Tom Preston-Werner Net Worth
| Net Worth | $1.25 billion (June 2018) |
| Source Of Income | Software Developer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Tom Preston-Werner is one of the richest Software Developer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Preston-Werner 's net worth $1.25 billion (June 2018). (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Thomas Preston-Werner (born October 28, 1979) is an American billionaire software developer and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the open-source development community, most prominently in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives.
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Preston was one of the initial members of the San Francisco group IcanhazRuby or ICHR, after he became a regular member of the San Francisco Ruby Meetups. He continued until the meetings became overwhelmed by venture capital investors searching for talent; this prompted him to seek more private gatherings. On April 8, 2011 he also started a conference called CodeConf, by means of GitHub’s influence in the coding community.
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Tony Ranked on the list of most popular Software Developer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tom Preston-Werner celebrates birthday on October 28 of every year.
Following his resignation from GitHub, Preston-Werner sold his shares in the company to Microsoft. Along with a team of former GitHub co-founders and executives, Preston-Werner then cofounded Chatterbug, a software for language- learning . In 2018, Chatterbug cofounder Scott Chacon announced an 8 million series A funding round for the company, financed by himself and Preston- Werner.