Tom Preston-Werner @tom_preston_werner@robot.villas
Tom Preston-Werner's personal essays and announcements about software, open source, startups, investing, and philanthropy. Latest feed post: October 2025.
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Announcing PWV Fund I #VentureCapital #Investing #Startups
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Oct 22, 2025 RedwoodJS' Next Epoch: All In on React Server Components #OpenSource #WebDev #JavaScript
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May 30, 2023 Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred #Software #Dev #OpenSource
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May 23, 2022 Introducing the Redwood Startup Fund #Startups #Investing #VentureCapital
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Apr 7, 2022 Announcing RedwoodJS 1.0 and $1M Funding #OpenSource #Startups #Funding
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Apr 4, 2022 Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Efforts #Philanthropy #SocialJustice #Community
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Jun 15, 2020 We Are Giving $1M Toward San Francisco COVID-19 Response #Philanthropy #Community #Covid19
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Mar 23, 2020 Joining the Netlify Board to Help Shape the Future of the JAMstack #OpenSource #Startups #Tech
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Mar 4, 2020 Snyk - Automatically Scan and Fix Ruby and Nodejs Vulnerabilities #Security #OpenSource #Software
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Nov 10, 2016 Replicated - An Easier Path from SaaS to Enterprise #SaaS #Enterprise #Startups
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Jun 19, 2015 Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing #Tech #OpenSource #Startups
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Apr 21, 2014 Open Source (Almost) Everything #OpenSource #Software #Essays
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Nov 22, 2011 Rejected Bio from The Setup #Personal #Essays #Writing
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May 3, 2011 Ten Lessons from GitHub's First Year #OpenSource #Startup #Lessons
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Mar 29, 2011 Designer, Architect, Developer #Software #Developer #Career
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Dec 11, 2010 Optimize for Happiness #PersonalGrowth #Wellbeing #LifeHacks
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Oct 18, 2010 Readme Driven Development #Software #Development #OpenSource
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Aug 23, 2010 TomDoc - Reasonable Ruby Documentation #Ruby #OpenSource #Programming
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May 11, 2010 The Git Parable #Git #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment
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May 19, 2009 Blogging Like a Hacker #Hacker #Blogging #Tech
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Nov 17, 2008 How to Meet Your Next Cofounder #Startup #Business #Networking
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Nov 3, 2008 Looking back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic #Startups #Business #Tech
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Oct 27, 2008 How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub #Startups #OpenSource #Entrepreneurship
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Oct 18, 2008 