Nat Friedman was the CEO of Github from 2018 to 2021. Before that, he started and sold two companies - Ximian and Xamarin. He is also the founder of AI Grant and California YIMBY. And most recently, he has created and funded the Vesuvius Challenge - a million dollar prize for reading an unopened Herculaneum scroll for the very first time. If we can uncover these scrolls, we may be able to recover lost gospels, forgotten epics, and missing works of Aristotle. We also discuss the future of open source and AI, running Github and building Copilot, and why EMH is a lie.

Vesuvius Challenge: https://scrollprize.org/
Nat's Wisdom: https://nat.org/
Nat's Twitter: https://twitter.com/natfriedman

𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒
* Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/nat-friedman
* Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3TCHFcY
* Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42rce9v

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
00:00:00 - Vesuvius Challenge
00:30:00 - Finding points of leverage
00:37:39 - Open Source in AI
00:40:32 - Github Acquisition
00:50:18 - Copilot origin Story
01:11:47 - Nat.org
01:32:56 - Questions from Twitter