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McCullough: GitHub hosts 35 million projects and 11 million users

Matthew McCullough · a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development · Jan 2, 2019 · at 6:20

Matthew McCullough of GitHub discusses the platform's global scale during an a16z podcast panel on software development.

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“We're talking about thirty-five million projects right now, and eleven million users.”

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The claim, plainly

As of January 2016, GitHub hosted 35 million projects and 11 million users.

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Assessment

The user count of 11 million is accurate for January 2016, as official GitHub press materials in late 2015 reported over 11 million users, growing to 12 million by February 2016. However, contemporaneous public reports from late 2015 cited between 27 million and 29.4 million repositories/projects. Official GitHub documentation did not publicly report crossing the 35 million repository/project threshold until April 2016 (in the 'Introducing DGit' blog post and public statements by GitHub leads).

GitHub press materials from October 2015 confirmed platform hosting of more than 11 million users.
Contemporaneous figures from late 2015 cited 27 million to 29.4 million repositories/projects.
GitHub officially announced hosting over 35 million repositories in an April 5, 2016 blog post ('Introducing DGit').

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[1] a16z.com [2] a-data-driven-guy.com [3] yubico.com [4] eweek.com [5] thekernel.com [6] vse.cz [7] medium.com [8] quora.com

"35 million repositories" github 2016 "11 million users" github 2015 OR 2016 "Matthew McCullough" "a16z" 2016 github GitHub 35 million projects 11 million users 2016 "35 million projects" github 2016

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