Omkar Moghe (omoghe)

Background

Git

• Version control system

• Distributed

• Branching & Merging (or rebasing)

GitHub

• Git hosting platform

• Various dev tools

Problem

• Need centralized source

“Host code, manage projects, and build software alongside millions of other developers.”

Products

• Repositories (code hosting)

• Developer tools

• Integrations

Financials

• Private company

• Raised $250 million in 2015

• $2 billion valuation

Financials

2015• $95 million revenue

• $27 million net loss

2016• $98 million revenue

• $66 million lost

Business Model

• Freemium

History

Founded Feb 8th

2008

100K users July 5th

2009

1m repos July 25th

2010

3m users, 5m repos Jan 16th

2013

Raised $250m

July 29th

2015

Ranked #14 on Forbes Cloud 100

2016

Secret Sauce

• Social coding

• New resume

• Open source

Competition

GitHub: 20m+ users, 54m+ projects

Prediction

• Success*

• Replacing other services

References

https://octodex.github.com

https://github.com/features

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap

http://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2016/12/github-financials-discussion.html

https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-better-than-bloomberg-thinks-here-is-why-a4580b249044#.5jkkohqoy

http://www.sramanamitra.com/2016/06/08/billion-dollar-unicorns-github-faces-growing-pains/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/github-raises-250-million-at-2-billion-valuation-1438206722

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub

https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/17/1392641746685/Food-selfie-011.jpg

Thank you