“I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin.”
Nat Friedman is out as GitHub CEO three years after Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for it. The farewell brags that 84% of the Fortune 100 now pay up. The open source developers who built the place get a thank-you note. Copilot, trained on their code, gets a mention as the future.