mitch gildenberg - github presentation
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Mitch Gildenberg
The Products
History- Founded in 2008 by Tom
Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett in San Francisco
- 2 million users after 4 years
- 2014: Tom Preston-Werner resigns as CEO after harassment claims
"Build software better, together"
2012: Andreessen Horowitz invested $100M
Single largest investment by the VC firm to date
$2.52 Billion
32 Million Repos
12 Million Users
# of Repositories
Competition
CompetitionGithub
- Pay by number of private repos
- Infinite contributors
Bitbucket- Pay by number of
contributors
- Infinite repos
Why is it so successful?
Secret Sauce- Beautiful UI
- Unlimited contributor count
- Easy repo discovery
Github has started to become a social network for developers
Predictions- Radical paradigm shift when Chris Wanstrath
became CEO in 2014
- Internal mood quickly turning negative. Employees and execs leaving
- Bitbucket can easily come take Github’s market share; Google Cloud Source is an impending threat
Questions?