Chris Wanstrath net worth
Chris Wanstrath Net Worth: Chris Wanstrath is an American businessman and entrepreneur with a net worth of $1.5 billion. Chris Wanstrath is best known as the co-founder and CEO of GitHub Inc. He co-founded the company in 2007 with Tom Preston-Werner, both at Ruby on Rails, a web development framework company.
Wanstrath became CEO when Preston-Werner resigned in 2014. GitHub, which allows multiple coders to work on the same piece of code without forgetting their changes, was worth $2 billion in 2015. They have over 11 million users working on more than 29 million projects. GitHub’s customers include Microsoft, NASA, Walmart, and the US and UK governments. In 2012, GitHub raised its largest first round of venture capital funding at $100 million. On June 4, 2018, Microsoft agreed to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion. As a result of the acquisition, Tom Preston-Werner received $1.25 billion in Microsoft stock. As the largest shareholder, Chris Wanstrath received $1.5 billion. Another founder got $1 billion.
