Nat Friedman (@natfriedman) — Twitter Score 369 out of 1000

Nat Friedman is a technology executive and angel investor who co-founded Xamarin and Ximian and previously served as CEO of GitHub. Nat Friedman's Twitter Score is 369 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #685 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Nat Friedman co-founded Ximian in 1999 with Miguel de Icaza; the company was acquired by Novell in 2003. He and de Icaza then co-founded Xamarin in May 2011, with Friedman serving as CEO, and Microsoft acquired Xamarin in 2016. When Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018, Friedman was named GitHub CEO, a role he held through November 2021, when he announced his departure and Thomas Dohmke succeeded him as CEO.

Nat Friedman now works at Meta Platforms as lead AI products, a move reported by The Wall Street Journal in July 2025. Before joining Meta, he co-founded NFDG, a venture firm, alongside Daniel Gross. Per The Wall Street Journal, Meta proposed acquiring as much as 49% of NFDG's holdings as a limited partner, without information rights or governance rights in the underlying portfolio, and NFDG would make no net new investments going forward. The Wall Street Journal also noted that NFDG's management company advisory group would include Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner of crypto venture firm Paradigm. Nat Friedman also co-founded C2 Investment, described by Business Insider's 2025 Seed 100 as a billion-dollar AI fund, often writing checks alongside Daniel Gross.

Nat Friedman is an advisor to Midjourney and serves as a board member of the Arc Institute. As an angel investor, Nat Friedman has backed Weights & Biases, Spice AI, Retool, Logseq, Perplexity, EleutherAI, Character. AI and Fab2. Nat Friedman's account has 446,749 followers as of August 2026 and 5,673 posts, and has been mentioned by 269 accounts, with 452 total mentions.

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