Nat Friedman
Nat Friedman is an American technology executive and investor who currently serves as head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs, a role he assumed in June 2025. He is best known as the former CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021, where he led the launch of GitHub Copilot, one of the first broadly used AI coding assistants. He previously co-founded Ximian and Xamarin, and has been an active investor in AI startups through the fund NFDG alongside Daniel Gross.
“From Nat Friedman, the prompt that Nat gave him was to like do a deep dive psychological analysis.”
Source→“I think Zuck's had a lonely stretch... it's even harder to find someone you can truly trust.”
Source→“His acqui-hire of... on one side Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman and on the other side Alexander Wang.”
Source→“I was really fortunate at Lightspeed to collaborate closely with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross before they went over to Meta. And yeah, when Nat would send me a deal... I always knew to pay attention.”
Source→“I was really fortunate at Lightspeed to collaborate closely with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross before they went over to Meta. And yeah, when Nat would send me a deal... I always knew to pay attention.”
Source→“People are coming into Suno. They're making music for the pure joy and entertainment value of making music... AI has made music creation so much fun that you're making music to make music.”
Source→“Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman and like smart money was immediately behind him.”
Source→“Wang... brought in former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, reportedly at multi-million dollar salary levels.”
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