An American entrepreneur, Chris Wanstrath, has a net worth of $1.5 billion.
The co-founder and CEO of GitHub, Chris Wanstrath, is his most well-known accomplishment.
In 2007, he and Tom Preston-Werner founded the company while working together at Ruby on Rails, a Web development framework company.
Following Preston-Werner’s resignation in 2014, Wanstrath assumed the role of CEO.
GitHub, which was valued at $2 billion in 2015, provides a platform for multiple coders to work on the same code without losing track of their changes.
Over 11 million users have contributed to GitHub, which currently manages more than 29 million projects. GitHub clients include Microsoft, NASA, Walmart, and the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom.
GitHub secured the largest first round of venture capital funding in 2012, raising $100 million.
GitHub was acquired by Microsoft on June 4, 2018, for a sum of $7.5 billion.
The acquisition resulted in Tom Preston-Werner receiving $1.25 billion in Microsoft stock.
The biggest shareholder, Chris Wanstrath, was given $1.5 billion.
An additional founder was compensated with $1 billion.