Tom Preston-Werner is a software entrepreneur and open-source creator who co-founded GitHub, the code-hosting platform later acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Tom Preston-Werner's Twitter Score is 67 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #12,387 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Tom Preston-Werner co-founded GitHub and has since built a broad portfolio of open-source infrastructure projects, including Gravatar, which he founded in 2004 and later transferred to Automattic, as well as RedwoodJS, Jekyll, Semantic Versioning (SemVer), and TOML. He also co-founded Chatterbug and founded Preston-Werner Ventures (PWV), through which he invests in early-stage companies. He currently serves as CEO of 180 Studios.
Tom Preston-Werner sits on the board of Hack Club and Mote Inc., and previously held a board seat at Ona (formerly Gitpod), which entered an agreement in June 2026 to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team. Tom Preston-Werner's account has 68,745 followers as of August 2026 and 8,562 posts, and has been mentioned by 89 accounts a total of 155 times.
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