omoghe EECS 441 W17 section 1

1. Omkar Moghe (omoghe)

2. Background
Git
• Version control system
• Distributed
• Branching & Merging (or
rebasing)
GitHub
• Git hosting platform
• Various dev tools

3. Problem
• Need centralized source
“Host code, manage projects, and
build software alongside millions of
other developers.”

4. Products
• Repositories (code hosting)
• Developer tools
• Integrations

5. Financials
• Private company
• Raised $250 million in 2015
• $2 billion valuation

6. Financials
2015
• $95 million revenue
• $27 million net loss
2016
• $98 million revenue
• $66 million lost

7. Business Model
• Freemium

8. History
Founded
Feb 8th
2008
100K users
July 5th
2009
1m repos
July 25th
2010
3m users,
5m repos
Jan 16th
2013
Raised
$250m
July 29th
2015
Ranked #14
on Forbes
Cloud 100
2016

9. Secret Sauce
• Social coding
• New resume
• Open source

10. Competition
GitHub: 20m+ users, 54m+ projects

11. Prediction
• Success*
• Replacing other services

12. References
https://octodex.github.com
https://github.com/features
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/github-is-building-a-coder-s-
paradise-it-s-not-coming-cheap
http://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2016/12/github-financials-discussion.html
https://medium.com/@moritzplassnig/github-is-doing-much-better-than-bloomberg-
thinks-here-is-why-a4580b249044#.5jkkohqoy
http://www.sramanamitra.com/2016/06/08/billion-dollar-unicorns-github-faces-growing-
pains/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/github-raises-250-million-at-2-billion-valuation-1438206722
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-
images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/2/17/1392641746685/Food-selfie-011.jpg

13. Thank you