Tom Preston-Werner

Announcing PWV Fund I 22 Oct 2025 - Bay Area, CA New achievement!

RedwoodJS’ Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components 30 May 2023 - Bay Area, CA RedwoodJS is the full-stack JS/TS web framework designed to help you grow from side project to startup.

Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred 23 May 2022 - Positano, Italy Ten years ago, I sat down and wrote the first version of what became the Semantic Versioning (SemVer) spec.

Introducing the Redwood Startup Fund 7 Apr 2022 - Bay Area, CA Today I’m pleased to announce the Redwood Startup Fund: a $1M fund that will invest $25k–$50k in startups that use RedwoodJS as a primary component in their stack.

Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Funding 4 Apr 2022 - Bay Area, CA Three years ago, I had an idea for a new web app framework.

Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Efforts 15 June 2020 - San Francisco On February 23rd, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered by armed white men while jogging near Brunswick, Georgia.

We Are Giving $1M Toward San Francisco COVID-19 Response 23 Mar 2020 - San Francisco COVID-19 represents an unprecedented threat to the health and livelihood of people everywhere, and as we wait for the the US government to act on this emergency, my wife,…

Joining the Netlify Board to Help Shape the Future of the JAMstack 4 Mar 2020 - Cordon, France In late September, 2015, I got an email out of the blue from Mathias Biilmann.

Snyk - Automatically Scan and Fix Ruby and Nodejs Vulnerabilities 10 Nov 2016 - San Francisco This is a story about a company called Snyk (pronounced “sneak”), their founder Guy Podjarny, my decision to become one of their advisors, and how they are going…

Replicated - An Easier Path from SaaS to Enterprise 19 Jun 2015 - San Francisco Over the last year I’ve had a chance to learn a lot more about early stage funding and made angel investments in a handful of startups.

Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing 21 Apr 2014 - New York City Today is my last day at GitHub.

Open Source (Almost) Everything 22 Nov 2011 - San Francisco When Chris and I first started working on GitHub in late 2007, we split the work into two parts.

Rejected Bio from The Setup 03 May 2011 - San Francisco Yesterday, the autobiographical post I wrote for The Setup went live.

Ten Lessons from GitHub’s First Year 29 Mar 2011 / 29 Dec 2008 - San Francisco This post was written in late December of 2008, more than two years ago.

Designer, Architect, Developer 11 Dec 2010 - San Francisco Over the last six years I’ve bootstrapped three successful enterprises (Cube6 Media, Gravatar, and GitHub) and failed to gain traction with a handful of others.

Optimize for Happiness 18 October 2010 - San Francisco Two days ago I had the pleasure of speaking at Startup School, a yearly conference on entrepreneurism put on by the great folks at Y Combinator.

Readme Driven Development 23 August 2010 - San Francisco I hear a lot of talk these days about TDD and BDD and Extreme Programming and SCRUM and stand up meetings and all kinds of methodologies and techniques for developing better software, but it’s all i…

TomDoc - Reasonable Ruby Documentation 11 May 2016 - San Francisco RDoc is an abomination.

The Git Parable 19 May 2009 - San Francisco Git is a simple, but extremely powerful system.

Blogging Like a Hacker 17 Nov 2008 - San Francisco Back in 2000, when I thought I was going to be a professional writer, I spent hours a day on LiveJournal doing writing practice with other aspiring poets and authors.

How to Meet Your Next Cofounder 3 Nov 2008 - San Francisco Over the last few months I’ve seen a number of people looking for cofounders on Hacker News or via their own personal blogs.

Looking back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic 23 Oct 2008 - San Francisco For an entrepreneur, the line between horrible mistake and runaway success can be so thin that even Kate Moss would be envious.

How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub 18 Oct 2008 - San Francisco 2008 is a leap year.