GitHub
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
- Sector
- Software development platform
- Business model
- B2B SaaS (dev tools)
- Founded
- 2008
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
- Status
- Acquired by Microsoft (2018)
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4mentions in other conversations
The team on Day One
Hear from the team
Milestones
- 2008 Founded by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, Scott Chacon en.wikipedia.org
- June 2018 Microsoft announced acquisition for US$7.5B en.wikipedia.org
- Oct 2018 Microsoft acquisition closed en.wikipedia.org
- 2021 Launched GitHub Copilot with OpenAI en.wikipedia.org
- June 2025 Surpassed one billion repositories en.wikipedia.org
What others say about GitHub
Moments from other conversations on the network where GitHub comes up.
I think for example, a lot of my customers, my biggest customers are cursor and GitHub and folks who are building tools within the space I mentioned earlier, like Century and their Seer tool.”
Katelyn LesseHead of Engineering, Platform, Anthropic In The Blink Of AI · Learn how to use AI at its exponential w… · 35:41 ▶ I think that it's going to stick around for a while because it's the community around GitHub that's there.”
Cole CornfordFounder & CEO, Galah Cyber Secured by Galah Cyber · How Dam Secure Puts Guardrails on AI Gen… · 16:08 ▶ So GitHub alone makes over $1 billion a year just from their core Git hosting services, and that's before Copilot, their AI tooling, which makes another couple of billion on top of that.”
Dan Borthwick Founder, NiceGit Pick My Brain · NiceGit: Making Git usable for everyone,… · 8:46 ▶ All these things, I think GitHub would have done it themselves, but they missed the boat, I guess.”
Harini JanakiramanCo-founder & CEO, BuildShip In The Blink Of AI · How BuildShip Is Building the Future of… · 19:30 ▶ In the news
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