Nat Friedman

Investor

2021 - Current

Chairman Emeritus

2021 - 2022

CEO

2018 - 2021

Corporate Vice President, Developer Services

2016 - 2018

At Microsoft I was responsible for Visual Studio Team Services and App Center, application lifecycle and devops services with more than a million users. I was also responsible for the internal company-wide engineering systems.

CEO and Cofounder

2011 - 2016

At Xamarin our mission was to make mobile development fast, easy, and fun. Xamarin allows developers to write native apps for iOS and Android using C#. We also built a number of other mobile development tools, including app monitoring and testing services, and a developer training program. In 4.5 years, the company grew to $50M ARR and thousands of paying customers. Xamarin is where I fell in love with go-to-market and sales. We built two successful sales models: a high-velocity, low-touch inside sales model, and a more traditional enterprise model. Both models benefited from strong inbound marketing and thousands of daily signups. The company was 350 people when we were acquired by Microsoft.

Chief Technology Officer, Open Source

2003 - 2009

After Novell bought my company, I led all the Linux client efforts and served as CTO for open source. I also ran GroupWise, a $150M collaboration product.

Cofounder, Chairman

2000 - 2003

The GNOME Foundation works to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is composed entirely of free software. Many companies were involved in GNOME, so I co-created the GNOME Foundation to provide independent governance for the project. It was one of the first such open source foundations.

Cofounder, CEO

1999 - 2003

At Ximian I invented the popular and uncontroversial "curl | sudo bash" installer method.