GitHub
github.comFounding Story
GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. GitHub, headquartered in San Francisco, is operated by Github, Inc., a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.
Key Milestones
The development of the GitHub platform began on October 19, 2007.
Hyett, Tom Preston-Werner, and Scott Chacon using Ruby on Rails, and started in February 2008.
On February 24, 2009, GitHub announced that within the first year of being online, GitHub had accumulated over 46,000 public repositories, 17,000 of which were formed in the previous month.
In 2010, GitHub was hosting 1 million repositories.
In July 2012, four years after the company was founded, Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million in venture capital with a $750 million valuation.
In 2014, the company added a layer of middle management in response to harassment allegations against its co-founder and then-CEO, Thomas Preston-Werner, and his wife Theresa.
In July 2015 GitHub raised another $250 million (~$322 million in 2024) of venture capital in a series B round.
In 2016, GitHub announced the launch of the GitHub Campus Experts program to train and encourage students to grow technology communities at their universities.