Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

Extracted Attributes

• Nationality

  Daniel Gross: Israeli-American; Nat Friedman: American

• Joint Venture Fund

  NFDG (also known as C2 Investments)

• Spouse (Nat Friedman)

  Stephanie Schatz

• Children (Nat Friedman)

  1

• Education (Nat Friedman)

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS)

• Recognition (Daniel Gross)

  Time 100 Most Influential People in AI

• Date of Birth (Nat Friedman)

  1977-08-06

Timeline

• Nat Friedman was born. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1977-08-06

• Nat Friedman graduated from St. Anne's-Belfield School. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1996

• Nat Friedman married Stephanie Schatz. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2009

• Nat Friedman co-founded Xamarin and served as its CEO. (Source: Web search results)

  2011

• Cue, co-founded by Daniel Gross, was acquired by Apple. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2013

• Daniel Gross led artificial intelligence and search projects at Apple. (Source: Web search results)

  2013-2017

• Nat Friedman became Corporate Vice President, Developer Services at Microsoft. (Source: Web search results)

  2016

• Nat Friedman became CEO of GitHub following Microsoft's acquisition. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2018

• Nat Friedman provided capital to multiple startups during the Silicon Valley Bank depositor run. (Source: Web search results)

  2023-03

• Daniel Gross co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. (Source: Summary)

  2024-06

• Daniel Gross was listed by Time 100 as one of the 'Most Influential People in AI'. (Source: Summary)

  Ongoing

• Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross are reportedly being pursued by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to bolster its AI efforts. (Source: Related documents)

  Ongoing

Daniel Gross (businessman)

Daniel Gross (Hebrew: דניאל גרוס) is an Israeli-American businessperson who co-founded Cue, led artificial intelligence efforts at Apple, served as a partner at Y Combinator, and is a notable technology investor in companies such as Uber, Instacart, Figma, GitHub, Airtable, Rippling, CoreWeave, Character.ai, Perplexity AI, and others. In June 2024, he co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. Time 100 has listed Gross as one of the "Most Influential People in AI".

Web Search Results

• Meta tried to buy Safe Superintelligence, hired CEO Daniel Gross

  Zuckerberg’s multibillion-dollar AI hiring spree has now turned to Daniel Gross, the CEO of Ilya Sutskever’s startup Safe Superintelligence, and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. It’s not how Zuckerberg planned for a deal to go down. [...] Meta recently tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup launched by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, according to sources familiar with the matter. When Sutskever rebuffed the offer, Mark Zuckerberg moved to recruit the startup’s CEO and co-founder Daniel Gross instead. Meta now plans to hire Gross and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and take a stake in their venture fund, to beef up the company’s AI team. In this article META-1.60 (-0.22%)Image 9: After Hours [...] Friedman co-founded two startups before becoming the CEO of GitHub following Microsoft’s acquisition of the code-sharing platform in 2018. NFDG has backed Coinbase, Figma, CoreWeave, Perplexity and Character.ai over the years, according to Pitchbook. It’s unclear what happens to its investment portfolio in a Meta deal, a source said. Don’t miss these insights from CNBC PRO ---------------------------------------

• Nat Friedman - Wikipedia

  Alongside Daniel Gross "Daniel Gross (entrepreneur)"), Friedman also has made significant investments in the AI space through a fund called C2 Investments, as well as running an AI grant program that gives funding and Microsoft Azure credits. During the depositor run on Silicon Valley Bank in mid-March 2023, Friedman provided capital to multiple startups. [...] Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born 6 August 1977) is an American technology executive and investor. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of GitHub and former chairman of the GNOME Foundation. Friedman is currently a board member at the Arc Institute and an advisor of Midjourney. ## Early life and education Friedman attended and graduated from St. Anne's-Belfield School in 1996. [...] Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia ## Contents # Nat Friedman | Nat Friedman | | | --- | --- | | Friedman in April 2006 | | | Born | Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (1977-08-06) August 6, 1977 (age 47) | | Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) | | Known for | CEO of GitHub (2018–2021) | | Spouse | Stephanie Schatz ​ (m. 2009)​ | | Children | 1 | | Website | nat.org |

• Meta in talks to partially acquire VC fund NFDG, hire Nat Friedman ...

  Meta Platforms plans to hire artificial intelligence investors Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross and partially buy out their venture capital

• Daniel Gross

  Cofounder of Cue, a search engine acquired by Apple in 2013. Ran AI and search projects at Apple 2013-2017. Investor in startups, often with Nat Friedman. Some

• Nat Friedman - The Network

  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. GNOME is a non-profit community that develops free software. Raised $300,000.00 from Handshake. ### Ximian #### Cofounder, CEO [...] 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. [...] #### 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. Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions. ### Xamarin #### CEO and Cofounder ##### 2011 - 2016