George Hotz

George Francis Hotz is a popular American security hacker who is better known as Geohot. He is also a hip hop artist, entrepreneur and software engineer. He is the one who developed IOS jailbreaks, reverse engineering for PlayStation 3, which brought him a lawsuit by Sony. He began working on his vehicle automation machine learning company called comma.ai in September 2015.

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Biography and Early Life

George Hotz has not much information concerning `family and biography in general. He was born in Glen Rock, New Jersey, in the United States. He came to this world on 2 October 1989. Hotz has not shared any information concerning his parents nor his siblings.

Age, Height, Weight & Body Measurement

So, how old is George Hotz in 2021 and what is his height and weight? Well, George Hotz’s age is 31 years old as of today’s date 2nd August 2021 having been born on 2 October 1989. Though, he is 5′ 3″ in feet and inches and 163 cm in Centimetres tall, he weighs about 179lbs in Pound and 81 kg in Kilograms.

Education

Concerning his education, he schooled at Bergen County Academies, an Academy for Engineering and Design Technology. The school was also a magnet public high school located in Hackensack, New Jersey. He later joined Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program. He enrolled at Rochester Institute Technology. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.

Personal Life: Dating, Girlfriends, Wife, Kids

Hotz does not share any information concerning his personal and relationship life. He is thus considered to be single. The reason behind keeping his relationship private is because he does not like unnecessary media attention concerning the matter.

Is George Hotz Gay?

No. Hotz has a straight forward sexual orientation and is neither gay nor bisexual. However, he is not open about anything concerning his relationship life. Anytime he opens up about his status, it will be immediately updated.

Professional Career

Hotz was seventeen years old when he removed a SIM lock on iPhone in August 2007. His second unlocked 8 GB iPhone was sold to Terry Daidone for a Nissan 350Z and three 8GB iPhones. He released blackra1n, which was compatible with both iPhone and iPod Touch devices. He announced his intentions to discontinue his jailbreaking activities on 13 July 2010 but continued to release new software based on this technique up to October 2010.

Hotz also worked with Play Station 3 since December 2009 and performed his first achievement on 22 January 2010.

Hotz has made a good income from meaningful sites like public donations for a security exploit career. He started working for Facebook in May 2011 but left in January 2012. He was then hired by Google on 16 July 2014to work with the Project Zero team. He developed Qira for dynamically analysing application binaries. From January 2015, he started working at Startup Vicarious until July that same year.

Hotz founded Comma.ai in September 2015. He disclosed during an interview with Bloomberg that his company built vehicular automation technology, which was based on machine learning algorithms. Tesla Motors requested to buy his technology and even met with the CEO, Elon Musk. He was offered $12 million. On 27 October 2016, Hotz was informed by NHTSA that his product was legally required to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.

Hotz became the head of the Research Team for the comma.ai project from 12 September 2018, while Riccardo Blasini became the CEO. In March 2019, he left only to return in May as the president. Comma.ai debuted its$999 comma two ADAS on 7 January 2020 during the annual CES tech show that happened in Las Vegas.

Hotz presented his Mapping Robot project during the 2004 ISEF competition, where he won. In 2005, he won with his “The Googler” project. He participated in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with his 3D imaging project called “I Want a Holodeck.” He won various prizes, including a $20 000 intel scholarship.

Awards

Hotz has not yet won any awards from his career. Nevertheless, he has gained so much attention from being a hacker. Being able to unlock the iPhone was a great achievement for him. He is gaining more fame day by day for hacking and might receive an award soon.

Net Worth, Salary & Earnings of George Hotz in ’2021’

Hotz has earned a good amount of money from his career as an American hacker. His estimated amount of net worth is around $6 million as of 2021. He also gets a good salary from working at Comma.ai Company every month though the exact amount of his salary is not revealed yet.

Some Interesting Facts You Need To Know

• Hotz is the founder of cheapETH cryptocurrency, which he founded in February 2020.
• He was listed by PC World in March 2008 among the ten top achievers below 21.

George Hotz is a very popular American known for his hacking passion. He was interested in the cyber world since he was young, and this made him learn more about it. Although he was once sued by Sony, there were no serious charges against him. Unlike many celebrities who like sharing about their day-to-day life, Hotz is different as he does not like any media attention about his personal life. Much of the information he shares is about his career and work in general.