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Chris Wanstrath was born on 13 March, 1985 in Ohio, US, is an American technology entrepreneur and co-founder and former CEO of GitHub. Discover Chris Wanstrath's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?
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Chris Wanstrath Height, Weight & Measurements
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Chris Wanstrath Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Chris Wanstrath worth at the age of 39 years old? Chris Wanstrath’s income source is mostly from being a successful Entrepreneur. He is from . We have estimated Chris Wanstrath's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Timeline
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 was born on March 13, 1985.
From a young age, he loved video games, and wanted to create his own.
He graduated from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 2003 and briefly studied English at the University of Cincinnati.
He left the university after getting a job in San Francisco at CNET Networks.
Before the success of GitHub, Wanstrath ran a Ruby on Rails consulting shop with PJ Hyett (a GitHub co-founder).
Prior to this, Wanstrath was at CNET Networks, where he worked on GameSpot and the launch of Chowhound.
He was a completely self-taught programmer until his job with CNET.
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 created the pjax JavaScript library.
According to Forbes his net worth is estimated at US$1.8-2.2 billion and is listed in America's richest entrepreneurs under 40, as well as Fortune's 40 under 40 and he was named in CNBC's Disruptor 50 list.
In 2008, Wanstrath co-founded GitHub and the service had 100,000 users by July 2009.
It was named to CNBC's Disruptor List five times between 2008 and 2018.
While at GitHub he created the Electron Software Framework.
Wanstrath served as its CEO until the Series A round of funding in 2012 and then president until 2014 at which time he returned to the CEO role.
He gave the keynote addresses at the GitHub Universe Conference from 2015 to 2017 and the GitHub Satellite Conference in 2016 and 2017.
He was CEO until October 2018.
At the time, GitHub had close to 1000 employees, over 20 million users, and $300 million in annualized recurring revenue.
In June 2018, Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion (~$ in ) in an all-stock deal.
At the time, GitHub was the world's largest host service for software code.
In addition to GitHub, Wanstrath created the job queue program Resque, the Mustache templating language, and the Atom text editor.
He's also created the pjax JavaScript library.
Wanstrath is on the board of trustees for the Computer History Museum.
In February 2023, Wanstrath announced a new games publishing studio, Null Games.
Null helps developers with marketing, development costs, porting, and publishing.
The company's first released title was a hockey-based rogue-lite called Tape to Tape, developed by Excellent Rectangle.
In its first week, 34,020 units of the game were sold.
Null Games states on its website that it will not “publish mobile games or games with gambling, loot boxes, or any other player-hostile behavior.”
Wanstrath was a speaker at NASA’s open source summit.
He's given keynote talks at the International RailsConf, Startup Riot Atlanta, Rails Summit Latin America, and different regional and international conferences.
