Seed
Tom Preston-Werner backs software and AI founders as cofounder and general partner of PWV and serves as CEO of 180 Studios. He cofounded GitHub and Chatterbug and created Gravatar, Jekyll, Semantic Versioning, and TOML.
Tom Preston-Werner backs software and AI founders as cofounder and general partner of PWV and serves as CEO of 180 Studios. He cofounded GitHub and Chatterbug and created Gravatar, Jekyll, Semantic Versioning, and TOML.
Career
HCBoard Member at Hack Club from 2017 to PresentJoined as a founding board member in 2017.
MBoard Member at Mote until Present
1CCofounder and Board Member at 128 Collective until Present
PCofounder and General Partner at PWV until Present
1SChief Executive Officer at 180 Studios until Present
P(Founder & (raising) Managing Partner at PWV (Preston-Werner Ventures) until Present
Cofounder and President at GitHub until 2014-04Previously CEO; final role President with R&D and new-growth responsibilities, announced January 2014 after an earlier internal transition; left April 21 2014.PTools Developer, Ranking and Relevance at Powerset until 2008Built internal tools for the Ranking and Relevance team before leaving to work full-time on GitHub.
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Cosigns Received
Eric SimonsCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer at StackBlitz
@jay_srinivasan & @mojombo who helped us navigate from their time building Appurify & GitHub
Ahmad Awais
Tom helped us navigate messaging, and DT jumped knee-deep in code and became a customer and friend I could depend on.
