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As GitHub's CEO, Friedman launched Codespaces and laid the foundation for Copilot — the AI tool that redefined how code gets written — then personally bankrolled the Vesuvius Challenge, using AI to decode scrolls buried by Pompeii's eruption.
Nat Friedman is Head of Products and Applied Research at Meta Superintelligence Labs, where he leads product and applied AI work after a career building and running major developer platforms.
He served as CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021, co-founded Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft) and Ximian, and co-founded the AI Grant program with Daniel Gross.
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