# George Hotz

> He cracked the iPhone when he was seventeen, then did the same to Sony's PlayStation 3 - both times because the lock was there and he wanted to see inside. The corporations sued. He kept going.

*American hacker*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/george-hotz

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Developer ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740))
- **Category:** Developers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1989-10-02
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

George Francis Hotz was born October 2, 1989, and made his name early as geohot, the hacker who developed iOS jailbreaks while still a teenager. He reverse engineered the PlayStation 3, which brought Sony's lawyers down on him in a lawsuit that made headlines but didn't slow him much. In September 2015 he founded comma.ai, a vehicle automation company built on machine learning, and ran it for a decade until November 2025. Since November 2022 he's been building tinygrad, a deep learning framework - still writing the tools that let him see under the hood.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 72.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 3.8 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 21.8 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 1.3 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 90.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #23
- **Total followers across platforms:** 47,486

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/realgeorgehotz (@realgeorgehotz)
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/georgehotz/ (@georgehotz)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/geohot (@geohot)
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-hotz-17425171/ (@george-hotz-17425171)
- **WEBSITE**: http://geohot.com/
- **GITHUB**: https://github.com/geohot (@geohot, 47,486 followers)

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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Hotz)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q370733)

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