Mitch Gildenberg - Github presentation

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?