Tom Preston-Werner, an American inventor, software developer, and entrepreneur, has a net worth of $1.25 billion.
Tom Preston-Werner hails from Dubuque, Iowa and was born in October 1979.
GitHub’s co-founder and former CEO is his most well-known accomplishment.
The company was established in 2007 by him and Chris Wanstrath, who were both employed at Ruby on Rails, a web development framework company.
In 2014, Preston-Werner resigned from the company following allegations of harassment made by one of its programmers.
GitHub, which has been valued at $2 billion, 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 more than 29 million projects.
Microsoft, NASA, Walmart, and the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom are among the clients of GitHub. In 2012, GitHub secured the largest first round of venture capital funding, with a total of $100 million.
Gravatar, the avatar service created by Preston-Werner, was sold to Matt Mullengweg, the creator of WordPress.
Codestarter, a non-profit organization that provides computers to child programmers, was co-founded by him.
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 sale of Microsoft resulted in the payment of over $1 billion to two of his co-founders.
Chris Wanstrath, the majority shareholder, received $1.5 billion.