Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wanstrath: Cyberattacks on GitHub aimed to suppress speech, not steal data
“And it's not about hacking or stealing information or trying to get passwords from us. It's about suppressing Speech.”
Insight
Wanstrath: Communication is software's hardest problem; technical issues can wait
“The communication part is the hardest part and the most important part, and the technical part, you have unlimited amount of time to figure out later, and so we're really focused on the communication part”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wanstrath: GitHub will become less interesting as execution takes priority over storage
“GitHub is actually gonna get less interesting in the future, and it's gonna be less about, I can grab an open source project and run it, and more about where do I run it? What are the systems it integrates into? And so, GitHub is really awesome, I think, for m…”
Disclosure
Wanstroth admits he was wrong to believe GitHub didn't need sales
“For a while, I think not having a sales team is the right decision for GitHub, and now I believe that having a sales team is the right decision. So, I, a couple years ago, I would have said GitHub is a company that doesn't need sales, and we did say that. Now,…”
Opinion
Wanstrath: Governments are 10 to 20 years behind on understanding online sharing
“So the idea that a state government or a state actor would be understanding the nuances of sharing information and what that means and what's harmful and not harmful It's ridiculous. They're at least 10 to 20 years behind on that.”
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Wanstrath: Over 40 million people globally write software beyond full-time developers
“We think there are twenty million people employed that are writing code, but the idea of what a programmer is, someone who writes software in their free time, or even professionally, that's not counted in a programmer, it's way more than twenty million, it's w…”
Disclosure
Wanstrath: Non-technical teams like marketing are migrating from Jira to GitHub
“We also see our customers, people that used to use Jira, people that are in the marketing team that want to update just some copy on a website, they're increasingly moving to something like GitHub, and they're also giving us feature requests specifically for t…”
Insight
Wanstrath: Developer capacity has replaced hardware as tech's primary constraint
“Now we're getting to a place where you can, on your phone, go get CPUs and bandwidth, and the real constraint is software, and really you can't order more software. What you have to do is Get more people to create software because it's all powered by humans, s…”
Insight
Wanstrath: Slack and Twilio succeed by easing the developer collaboration paradox
“There's almost this paradox where we are working on computers all day, but it's very hard for us to work with each other, and this is why you see, I think, things like Twilio and even Slack blowing up, is like, finally, there's an easy way for me to work with …”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wanstrath: By 2020, every company will use both open and closed source
“And I think four years from now, there won't be a single business on the planet that only uses closed source or only uses open source.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Wanstrath: Only 30% of GitHub's web traffic originates from North America
“Only 30% of GitHub's traffic comes from North America”
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Wanstroth: GitHub dogfoods its own issue tracker for internal sales communication
“There's a, we have a GitHub repository internally called GitHub Sales, and the salespeople do talk a lot in issues there, but it's the same exact place where engineers are talking. It's the same exact place where really everyone in the company is talking. So w…”
Disclosure
Wanstrath: GitHub raised in 2012 to expand into business software
“We first decided to raise investment in 2012 after we were around four years old because we wanted to branch out from our own personal networks of Software developers, from programmers, we wanted to get into the world of business, we wanted to really expand Gi…”
Disclosure
Wanstroth: GitHub achieved early product-market fit organically without sales
“We initially built GitHub just for ourselves and people who are like us, and so that's where we found a lot of the product market fit, was that the product sort of marketed itself.”
