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Investing in GitHub

github.com on 07/09/2012

Excerpt: In four short years we've done a lot we're really proud of. We've shipped great native apps like GitHub for Mac and GitHub for Windows. We've made using GitHub from within Eclipse even easier. We've contributed to killer open source projects like libgit2 and git. We've thrown hundreds of drinkups, sponsored tons of conferences, drawn a bunch of octocats, and, of course, made building software even better with github. com and GitHub Enterprise. We've done all this without any outside investment. Our company has been profitable for years, is growing fast, and doesn't need money. So why bother? Because we want to be better. We want to build the best products. We want to solve harder problems. We want to make life easier for more people.... read the full post.
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