Post on 13-Dec-2014
description
Github
Michael Ensing
What is it?
● Code hosted in the cloud
● Many collaborators
● “Social Coding”
Other Products
• Gist
• Speaker Deck
• Gauges
• Github Jobs
• Atom
Financial Information
• Received $100M in funding (July 2012)
● Revenue growing by 300% annually
● “Profitability nearly the entire way”
History
● Launched in April 2008 ○ Founded by Tom Preston-Werner,
Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett
● 1,000,000 repositories by July 2010
● 10,000,000 by 2014
● Currently 238 Employees
What’s Hot
● Group, collaborative coding
● Cloud hosting
● Open Source
Secret Sauce
● Free hosting for open source
● Multiple people can edit at once!
● Everyone is self-managed
Interesting story
Competition
Predictions for the Future
● Cloud based coding becomes standard
● Competition will drive new features
● Security concerns?
Thanks for listening!
Any questions?