(2010-08-31) Github The Biz

On GitHub as Lean Startup. As far as numbers go, we have hundreds of thousands of users, tens of thousands of paying customers, and almost a million repositories – with thousands more added each day. All in just over two years... The real office, the place everyone shows up every day, is our CampFire room... Do we make web apps, or just do source control? What do we pay our employees? Should we speak at conferences? How do we approach customer support? All of these might seem like isolated questions, but they’re all directly related to the philosophy of the company. Once you know what the company stands for they’re all much easier to answer. We were having a hard time answering each question individually before we really figured out what GitHub the company was all about (Shared Vision). (Git)