George Hotz

George Hotz — geohot — is one of those rare people who makes you feel genuinely inadequate in the best possible way. At 17 he became the first person to unlock the original iPhone, not for money but basically for the sport of it, and that set the tone for everything that followed. He reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3, survived a very public legal fight with Sony, and then turned around and started comma.ai, building open-source self-driving software in a style that felt more like a hacker's weekend project than a Silicon Valley startup. Whether you think he's a genius or an agitator, the guy has a real gift for picking the most technically guarded locks in the industry and walking right through them. I find his unapologetic anti-establishment attitude either refreshing or exhausting depending on the day, but I can never quite look away.

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Name (English)

George Hotz

Name (Japanese)

ジョージ・ホッツ

Reading

じょーじ・ほっつ

Born

October 2, 1989 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

Origin

Glen Rock, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

blogger / programmer / computer scientist / photographer

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://geohot.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/georgehotz/
• Xhttps://x.com/realgeorgehotz
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Hotz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%83%E3%83%84
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q370733

Tags

• New Jersey
• blogger
• programmer
• computer scientist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.