GitHub was started in 2007 as a weekend project and officially launched in 2008. It offers both free public repositories for code hosting and paid private repositories and enterprise offerings. GitHub Enterprise provides additional security, hosting, and administrative features for businesses. With over 14 million users and millions of repositories, GitHub has become very popular for software development and open source projects. It generates revenue from individual/team subscriptions and enterprise sales.

1. Ruizhi Deng
DENGR

2. History
Oct. 2007 Started as a weekend project by Tom Preston-Werner & Chrys
Wanstrath
Feb. 2008 Founded by Tom Preston-Werner, Chrys Wanstrath & P J Hyett.
April. 2008 Launched its web-based code hosting service Github.
Nov. 2011 Launched GitHub Enterprise

3. Product
● GitHub
○ Unlimited free public repositories.
○ Charges for private repositories.
■ Individuals V.S. Group Users
■ Monthly subscriptions
● GitHub Enterprise
○ Source code hosting solution for enterprise users
■ Better security features, more hosting options, administrative features for enterprise,
24x7 technical support and on-site service.
■ Yearly subscription. Pricey
■ Important customers: Paypal, NASA, Vimeo, SAP
● Extensions
○ Atom, HUBOT, Git LFS

4. Business Model
● Individual user subscription
● Code hosting solution for enterprise customers
● Selling storage and bandwidth for Git LFS
● No advertisement

5. Financial Info
● Value: $2 billion (2015)
● Funding raised: $350 million, with $250 million raised in 2015
● Profitable and revenue: ????
● Active User: 14 million (April 2016)
● Number of Repositories:

6. Secrete Sauce
● Distributed version control + centralized cloud storage
● 3rd party integration and Git
● Friendly to open-source projects
● Collaboration and social network

7. Competitors
Launch Data Popularity VCS Individual Plan Enterprise
Service
Github April 2008 Latest Alexa
Ranking: 54
Git Private Repos Yearly all-in-one
subscription
package
Bitbucket Sept. 2009
Oct. 2011 Start
supporting Git
Latest Alexa
Ranking: 812
Git
Mercurial
Cap on the
number of
collaborators
No
GitLab Sept. 2011 Latest Alexa
Ranking: 4228
Git Free Monthly basic
subscription
Charges for
additional
features

8. Prediction
Positive
Definitely in short term.
Long term.

9. Reference
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub
● http://usersnap.com/blog/gitlab-github/
● http://www.businessinsider.com/github-identity-crisis-2016-2
● https://github.com/blog/1724-10-million-repositories
● http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=http://www.forbes.com/sites/
miguelhelft/2015/07/29/github-raises-250-million-in-round-led-by-sequoia-capi
tal/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitbucket
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab
● https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-proud-github